The Textile Museum is at Jalan K.S. Tubun No.2-4, Kota Bambu Selatan, Palmerah District, West Jakarta.

This building was originally a villa (landhuis) owned by French citizens who lived in Batavia. Then this building was bought by the Turkish Consul Abdul Azis Al Mussawi Al Katiri, and in 1942 it was bought by a Dutch citizen DR. Karel Christian Cruq.

During the war for independence in 1945, the Textile Museum Building was used as the Youth Headquarters of the Pioneer Front and the People's Security Front (BKR).

In 1947 this building was purchased by a Chinese citizen, Lie Sion Pin, then purchased by the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs in 1952, and in 1976 it was handed over to the Regional Government of DKI as the Textile Museum, which was inaugurated on June 28, 1976, by Mrs Tien Soeharto.

Currently, the Textile Museum is under the management of the Art Museum Management Unit, DKI Jakarta Provincial Culture Office.

The Textile Museum has two main exhibition buildings: the Permanent Exhibition Building and the Temporary Exhibition Building. The Temporary Exhibition Building occupies the main building, while exhibitions still occupy the space of the Batik Gallery.

The Batik Gallery was inaugurated on October 2, 2010, to increase public appreciation of batik cloth.

The Batik Gallery contains various kinds of batik collections found in Indonesia, such as Sumatra, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta and East Java.

In addition to various collections of batik cloth, there are also natural batik dyes, stamped batik motifs, procedures for the batik process and various kinds of interiors with batik motifs, such as beds, furniture, masks and wayang golek.

The Textile Museum has a vision as a non-profit institution that is a center for nature and culture conservation, a media for scientific activities, arts and culture, educational support, information media and as a cultural educative recreation which is one of the references and references for the nation-building process.