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42 South Main Street Woonsocket RI 02895 |
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The Museum of Work & Culture is about local culture, immigration, labor, and enterprise in the Blackstone Valley, the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution. The story unfolds on the self-guided tour through films, interactive audio presentations, please-touch exhibits, displays including over 200 photographs, and changing exhibits. Students enter the Museum across the threshold of a Québécois farmhouse to encounter a typical habitant’s life and family in the pre-industrial era. From there, they begin a journey through the workaday world of Woonsocket’s residents and immigrant arrivals. Walking onto the shop floor of a textile mill, from the front porch of a triple-decker apartment house, sitting in church, at a school desk, and in the labor union hall, students find themselves immersed in the everyday lives of the working-class in New England from before the First World War to the present. |
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