amuri museum of workers' housing

lamacaa

Very very interesting place to visit if you like history. Is the old neighbourhood of workers. They set the rooms according to different decades so you can see the differences along the years.It´s unique. To complete the tour I would recommend you to have a coffee/tea at the Helmi cafe of amuri next door.

JamzyW

Very nice place to visit with my friends. Looking around the old housing is fascinating itself. But, the snacks and drinks, and warmth of the atmosphere was very enjoyable especially on a cold December day.THis is well worth it, if your interested in having a loook at life in years gone by, or just to enjoy a lovely hot drink, with a small selection of cakes/pastries.

TerhiP_13

The museum Café has cosy atmosphere and very tasty and traditional bread and bun to be enjoyd with coffee or tea. You can also buy bakings to take away. Reasonably priced. They also serve traditional Finnish breakfast every morning (also on weekends) and soup lunch (weekdays only).

MC0777

You can jump to the middle of the history and see how people has been living in Tampere . This is a small and cosy museum having lovely coffee place where it's possible to get also breakfast and lunch.

Ailmarsh

Houses are well preserved, full of interesting artefacts. Really got a sense of what life would have been like there.Good tearoom too!Best of all, FREE admission after 3.00pm on Fridays and we didn't know this until we went to buy our tickets :-)However, I would pay to visit here

ALTravel_everywhere

An amazing place to visit especially since the last resident left in 1973. This truely shows how the Finish people lived during the centuries.

Poole11

It is only a 5-10 minute walk down from Pynikki Tower to the Amuri museums but again no signposts so more map reading and asking people. Even when I was close I had to ask the location of the worker's housing museum as it is behind another museum. I found the museum fascinating. I was provided with a booklet with English interpretations of all the room signs. The rooms represent different years and there are details about the people who lived there. I spent a couple of hours wandering from house to house. The tradition is for 2-4 families to share a central kitchen area in the middle of the house. I enjoyed a sandwich and tea in the cafe afterwards.

621simond

Well worth a visit. A mueum of how things were pretty much pre-war II from an Industrial workers' perspective. Ask at kiosk for your laungage book/guide. Quite daunting to see how families lived. I visited Tampere for the day from Helsinki on the train and saw this museum as part of the self-guided tour found in the tourisn booklet for the City.

X9857BVpaulb

A very interesting museum of houses (all original to the location) of how citizens of Tampere lived in the last 100 or so years. View the latest technologies and see how politics influenced the "decorations" of the house. Don't forget to visit the communal sauna and bathroom!

travelpeeks

The museum details the history very well and we enjoyed the old industrial machines used in the manufacturing process.

Heli55Finland

Outdoor musem, what gives an idea, how things have changed in domestic housing in Tampere every 10 years starting 1800-century. The block is a real thing. It also have very nice cafe with selfmade cookies.

Zippingale

This museum is simply moving. It tells the history of housing for workers in Tampere, beginning in the 1880s. There is no temptation to romanticize the past - life must have been hard and privacy limited. As you move through the decades (the museum is organised in chronological order and follows select life-storeis), the furniture, fittings and fabric change bit by bit - until one suddenly discovers traces of one's grandparents' and parents' living rooms. This museum represents a distinctively Finnish history (communal kitchens, the saunas ...) and is based in Tampere, but the associations with the wider European history are omnipresent. One leaves wiser and a bit humbled. Ideal in combination with the Lenin museum and the labour museum nearby for a politcal and social context. There is an English brochure that explains the necessary background; the cafe looked tempting but was too busy when we visited. Very reasonable entrance fee.

sinikka_u

There you can see old fashion homes, workers home with nice views. A small cafeteria,good balls and bread. Spend a day in museum... it´is worth!

kaisas700

The Amuri Museum of Workers Housing is really interesting and the price is ok.The Cafe looks wonderful, but the pastry was try and tasteless.

JariA631

Best way to start uderstand how we lived in Finland earlier. Central kitchen, saunas and closed yards. Ladies of the house were commanding officers and men drunk.