The Amuri museum quarter description and photos - Finland: Tampere (Topic)

Museum "Working quarter of the Amur" (The Amuri museum quarter) description and photos - Finland: Tampere. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is The Amuri museum quarter.

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The history of the Amuri quarter dates back to 1779, when Tampere was founded. At that time, the townspeople were allocated land for vegetable gardens on the outskirts of the new city. In the early 1800s. here a wave of immigrants poured in who needed to live somewhere. As a result, the townspeople had to abandon their plots and give way to new residents of the city. Amuri developed not only as an agricultural, but also as an industrial area.

On the territory of the museum quarter there are five residential buildings and four outbuildings of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Visitors will see a communal apartment, premises for a shoemaker and a baker, an old shop, a haberdashery shop and a public sauna. At the turn of the 1900s, about 5000 people lived in wooden buildings, which was ¼ all housing. A feature of such houses was a communal kitchen for four families, where there were 4 separate fireplaces, which allowed each hostess to prepare food at any time.

The atmosphere of a working-class district was still preserved here. As before, there is a shoemaker's workshop (1906), a bakery (1930) and a paper shop (1940).

The museum is open from May to September, and the local cafe "Amurin Helmi" tourists all year round.

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