The history of the museum

In the Amuri Museum of Workers' Housing a part of old Amuri was preserved. the demolition of the old wooden houses in the workers' district began in the 1960's. The new town plan was published in 1965 and in that Amuri was designated as an area to build high-rise flats on. The district's lifestyle in the wooden quarters was preserved in memories though and was restored as the museum we can see today.
The building of the museum quarter was started in 1975 by a co-operative effort. The quarter comprised five dwelling houses, stories that described life in Amuri were drawn up for this quarter. From the basis of the "script" the museum's story was formed. It introduces many different perspectives from 1882 right up to 1973.
In practice the first museum plans were formed from the chalk of an assistant on the floor of the Tampere museum of technology once the appropriate objects were found for the fictitious residents from collections and donations.

The common denominator of the residents in the museum of workers' housing was the factory. The Finnish writer Lauri Viita described Amuri in his novel "Moraine" (Moreeni): The street was straight and smooth, the blocks of houses square and regular, with a strip of sky visible above each street. All you had to do was step out in a straight line, back and forth, east and west! It was certainly not too much to expect of a grown man that he should be able to find his way from the mill to his bed and from his bed to the mill without anyone having to take him by the arm.