Helsinki's museums introduce us not only to art, studies of the lives of important people, and significant historical events. Finns are very down-to-earth people, many of them are descendants of workers and peasants, which is why the Museum of Working-Class Life, which is part of the City Museum, is so interesting and informative.
Here you will not see luxury, elegance, or extraordinary beauty. You will be told about the lives of ordinary laborers who worked for decades in Finnish factories. As a rule, they settled in small apartments nicknamed "stoves." It was in three such buildings that, in 1986, it was decided to create a museum so that everyone interested could get acquainted with the slow-paced and unpretentious everyday life of workers.
The museum's interior recreates with documentary precision the conditions in which more than one generation of the city's residents grew up. Kitchen utensils, dishes, furniture, textiles, modest home decorations - everything is exactly as it was at the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibition was created from photographs, notes, and the memories of eyewitnesses of those times. You will learn how ordinary Finnish workers dressed and what they ate in the era of the rise and development of industrialization, and if you wish, you can even bake bread for yourself in the kitchen, just like an ordinary factory worker.
