Museum of Work
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Styrkjärn in central Norrköping The Museum of Work (Arbetets museum) is a museum located in Norrköping, Sweden.
The museum is located in the Strykjärn (Clothes iron), a former weaving mill in the old industrial area on the Motala ström river in the city centre of Norrköping.
The former textile factory Holmens Bruk (sv) operated in the building from 1917 to 1962.
The museum documents work and everyday life by collecting personal stories about people's professional lives from both the past and the present.
The museum's archive contain material from memory collections and documentation projects.
Since 2009, the museum also houses the EWK — Center for Political Illustration Art, which is based on work of the satirist Ewert Karlsson (1918 — 2004).
For decades he was frequently published in the Swedish tabloid, Aftonbladet.
The museum is a national central museum with the task of preserving and telling about work and everyday life.
It has, among other things, exhibitions on the terms and conditions of the work and the history of the industrial society.
The museum is also known to highlight gender perspective in their exhibitions.
The work museum documents work and everyday life by collecting personal stories, including people's professional life from both the past and present.
In the museum's archive, there is a rich material of memory collections and documentation projects — over 2600 interviews, stories and photodocumentations have been collected since the museum opened.
The museum is also a support for the country's approximately 1,500 working life museums that are old workplaces preserved to convey their history.
The Museum of Work shows exhibitions going on over several years, but also shorter exhibitions — including several photo exhibitions on themes that can be linked to work and e...
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