The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas

Tampere, Finland

The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas is located in the historical Finlayson cotton mill area. At Werstas, you can visit the Textile Industry Museum, the Steam Engine Museum as well as the Labour Museum's changing and permanent exhibitions.

The exhibitions at Werstas offer an overview of the history of the industrial era, worker population and civil society from different perspectives. The constantly refreshed exhibitions present interesting events from the history of social issues, workers’ culture, visual arts and politics. At Werstas, ordinary people take centre stage and their everyday lives, work and the differences between them are recounted in the form of memorable stories. Free admission for all visitors.

Address

Väinö Linnan aukio 8, Tampere, Finland

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Details

Founded: Museum founded in 1993
Category: Museums in Finland
Historical period: Independency (Finland)

More Information

www.museot.fi
www.tyovaenmuseo.fi

Rating

4.3/5 (based on Google user reviews)

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User Reviews

Eeva-Maria Antinluoma (16 months ago)
Interesting history and exhibitions, free admittance

aju krishnan (2 years ago)
Visitors here can catch a glimpse of Finland's history and industrialization. Focusing on Finlayson cotton mill and factory workers life, there are freedom museum, steam engine museum etc.

Mikko Ylhainen (2 years ago)
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San Vir (2 years ago)
The museum is really great and worth checking out if you are in town. Currently there is exhibition Museum if Freedom with lots of information about Finland and freedom.

Katerina Crawford (2 years ago)
Fun place to visit. Favorite stop was a bread making machine, piano and pharmacy

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