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EXHIBITION
The Children’s Workers Museum
The days of your great-grandmother’s childhood
A trip back in time
At the Children’s Workers Museum, our youngest visitors can experience and play their way into the lives of working-class children from when great-grandma was a child.
Take a stroll through the small working-class apartment, down the narrow back stairs and look up into the scarce daylight and see the laundry hanging on strings as you explore the backyard. But watch out for the rats and mean, old Aksel in the bog-house!
Photo: Malthe Ivarsson
Photo: Malthe Ivarsson
play with everything
Let your children work as delivery at the grocery store, sort bottles at the brewery, and stamp membership fees at the union office.
They can dress up, rehearse dancing at the dance school, play in a 1930s apartment, and visit the pawnbroker to see if they can get some money for that old coat. Children and adults alike can hear the story of Thorvald, the working-class boy who became Denmark’s longest-serving prime minister.
The backyard
In the blue kitchen, you will find a staircase if you look closely. Explore and follow the stairs. At the bottom, you will enter a real backyard as it once was. A forgotten piece of urban culture that allows families and schoolchildren to experience an authentic backyard as it looked in Copenhagen in the 1930s. Cramped, narrow, and full of prohibitions for children – and maybe with a rat or two. But also with room for curiosity, play and imagination.
With the backyard, the Workers Museum recreates an urban space that no longer exists in Copenhagen. The many small backyards were not recreational, but rather functional spaces for everyday chores such as washing clothes and using the toilet, and perhaps even housing a small craft business or two.
A museum for children
Through play and sensory exploration, children will experience what it was like to be a working-class child when their great-grandmother was a child – and they can play with everything. The exhibition is particularly suitable for children aged 3 to 12 who visit the museum with their families or in small groups with their kindergarten or after-school program. Entrance is free of charge for children.
Thank you for your support for the construction of the backyard
