Worker’s Museum

The Worker’s Museum, located in Alppila next to the Linnanmäki amusement park, is one of the oldest wooden houses built for the workers of the City of Helsinki. The nine small stove rooms of the museum have been decorated as homes from different time periods, with interiors that shed light on the joys and sorrows of working class families in 20th century Helsinki.

The residents rush to work, cook food, smuggle spirits, cower from air raids, do homework, rest on their spring beds and celebrate family events. The museum experience is enhanced further by the different soundscapes of the wooden building and the stories of residents of different ages, which the visitors can listen to on their own phone. All the residents are real people who have lived in the house at different times.

The museum displays both original furniture of the residents and objects selected from the museum collections. The decors of the stove rooms reflect changes in housing in the 20th century – oil lamps were replaced with electric lights, and extendable beds with spring beds. Nearly all homes have a sewing machine, but the gramophone and radio were rare novelties at first.

In the summer season, the Worker’s Museum is open from Wednesday to Sunday (14 Aug – 2 Nov 2025).