The print workshop
Hand composition through to modern printing.
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Very much so, because the appeal here is sensory rather than textual: large machines that move and make noise, and workshops you can genuinely take part in, such as printing a sheet by hand. The text-heavy historical sections hold less appeal for younger children but are quickly passed. Check the workshop operating times, since they are what drives a family visit.
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The Museum of Work occupies a genuine factory: the New-York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren rubber works, which employed thousands until it closed, converted into a museum telling how work itself has changed across two centuries — from the craft workshop to the production line to the digital office. What distinguishes it is that its machines run: lithographic presses, typesetting machines and stamping presses are operated in front of you in working workshops, and visitors can take part in some of them. The printing section in particular shows a complete sequence from hand composition to modern printing, and operates regularly. The museum does not avoid politics: it displays harsh working conditions and the history of trade unions, strikes, and child and women's labour in the factories — a perspective rare in technology museums, which tend to celebrate the machine alone. It sits in Barmbek north of the centre, directly on the metro.
Hand composition through to modern printing.
Unions, strikes and child labour.
Wiesendamm 3, 22305 Hamburg