Workers Museum — Attraction in Copenhagen Municipality

RE to your reply: Your answer is absolutely insufficient. Your answer is contrary to the common sense, which requires not to place significant museum exhibits in the space reserved for physiological activities.

I haven't watched the movie you mentioned. However, this is not necessary to understand the true intentions of your actions. There is not a word about the October Revolution in the whole Museum (of course I could have missed something, and there may be some marginal mentions). And this is the real context. Silence and mockery. For years, bourgeois and anti-communist propaganda did the same (and still it does).

Perhaps you are in the process of changing the exhibition and showing the October Revolution. Perhaps it will present a more reliable perspective, showing the truth. Perhaps. Nevertheless, I don't believe it, as you have found a more prominent and neutral place for the poster celebrating the anniversary of 1989. The year presented as the victory of freedom. Indeed, freedom of the bourgeois, freedom of the capitalists for conquering the whole Earth. De facto a victory of counterrevolution.

However, nothing can stop the course of history.

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The exhibition in the museum shows a fairly neat picture of the lives of workers in Denmark (Copenhagen) from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. The museum is an expression of social-democratic (evolutionary) ideology, not seeking to fundamentally change the socio-economic system, and certainly not to abolish capitalism as such. Therefore, it is not surprising thet the exhibition completely omits the revolutionary socialism (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Rose Luxemburg etc.) and even the very fact of the October Revolution is not mentioned. However, the absolute scandal is the placement of Soviet posters of Lenin and the October Revolution next to the entrance to the toilets (sic!). I can understand that the owners of the Museum do not like the revolutionary tradition, but the humiliation of one of the greatest people of the 20th century, with undeniable merits for the workers' movement, is shameful! I have the impression that Museum owners should wonder why after 1989 (1991) the situation of the working class (precariat) deteriorated so rapidly and economic neoliberalism accelerated. Is there any causal relationship between the fall of the USSR and a retreat from e.g. basic social security or (more importantly) the prospects for the evolutionary development of the world system. BTW: considering the 1917: I strongly recommend reading e.g. Mark D. Steinberg's book (Voices of the Revolution, 1917), Paul Vernadsky (The Russian Revolution: when workers took power) or even Grover Furr's books. To start with, to understand...

The permanent exhibition is disappointing and rather boring. Basically it consists of old apartments, preserved from the 1880's or 1950/60's, with some explanations about the families who lived there, and how a worker's family lived. There's also a part on the history of work, but there didn't seem to be an English translation available. This is a consistent problem here: almost all of the text throughout the museum is in Danish. They do have the English tranlations printed on a piece of paper that usually hangs up somewhere at the end of each exhibition. This isn't a great system, and I don't see why they don't just put the translations on stickers next to the Danish ones.

One redeeming aspect though is that it looks like a lot of fun to visit with children. There's a whole section where children can touch and play with everything. Very cool.

What really saved the visit for me is the temporary exhibition on activism. It's based on research from Aarhus university and very interesting and inspiring. One of those exhibitions where you just want to read and listen to everything. It's a bit of a pity that it only focuses on left wing activism, but then I guess it's the worker's museum for a reason.

Also: the museum shop is not at all selling at socialist prices....

Very meaningful and well-curated museum - it's always interesting to visit a place where historical activities by and that affected the hoi polling took place. Technology is used effectively to transfer knowledge (e.g. tablet in the room to the left of the main hall). Great video (with English subtitles) on the balcony (under the current decade) to share information about the museum itself. A lift is available in the main hall for ease of movement, but it could be made more obvious (some people weren't aware of the option to use it and the stairs can be difficult to traverse). The special exhibition in the basement was also very informative regarding gender equality movements in Denmark. The restaurant on the other side of the basement looked fancy (unexpected because of the theme of the museum) and I didn't stay/eat there. Very lovely staff in all areas of the museum. Opened on Mondays - not all museums are on this day. Buy your ticket online for a...