The Lanificio di Stia, after various vicissitudes, ceased all production activities in 1985 thus closing its glorious and centuries-old history. Pier Luigi della Bordella, a man of great general and specific culture in the textile field, a keen researcher of local history, has studied and reconstructed the history of the Lanificio di Stia and the wool industry in Tuscany. The result of his research is the volume "The Art of Wool in Casentino", a fundamental source of information for all that is told in the Museum where many documents of his precious and unique collection are exhibited. At the same time he works with intelligent determination to create a museum on the history of textiles at Stia and a study center and meetings connected to it.

The first nucleus of the Museum was created starting in 1996, with the temporary exhibition Sul Filo della Lana, by Pier Luigi della Bordella and Gabriele Grisolini, former employee of Lanificio and founder of the textile company "Tessilnova", which exhibit documents, 'era and objects collected from them and belonged to the Wool Mill, thus giving life to the Documentary Exhibition on the Historic Lanificio di Stia, provisionally set up in some spaces owned by Grisolini.

To find a stable and large site for the museum, the idea was born to recover the complex of abandoned buildings that constituted the Lanificio and Pier Luigi della Bordella worked to ensure that the latter returned from the Lombard family. Simonetta Lombard adheres enthusiastically to the initiative by purchasing on her behalf the buildings that once housed her Lanificio and constitutes a Foundation to leave a lasting mark on her family's work, particularly her father Luigi. In April 2003, the Foundation obtained recognition of its legal personality. In 2005 Simonetta Lombard died, leaving the Foundation her only heir.