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The collections of the Finnish Labour Museum Werstas explore changes in Finnish working life and social history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas is a national specialed museum that has nationwide responsibility on the themes of social and labour history in Finland. The museum’s collections explore the emergence and development of Finnish civil society.
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The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas\u2019 collections document the history of working life, trade union activity, the labour movement, the cooperative movement, and other popular movements. The museum collects materials about gender and sexual minorities and the environmental movement. In addition, the collections also include the Finnish Museum of the Deaf\u2019s collections on the history of sign language and the collections of Nootti, the Museum of the Finnish-Russian Relations on the history of the relations between Finland and Russia\/the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

Altogether, the collections contain about 60,000 objects and 360,000 photographs. In addition, the museum\u2019s collections include library materials, printed publications, and archive materials. The oldest materials date back to the early 19th century, and the most recent materials to the 2020s.<\/p>\n

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Werstas is the only museum in Finland that collects objects and other materials on the following topics:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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