Description of the attraction
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 XIX - early XX 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 5,000 people lived in wooden buildings, which accounted for ¼ of all housing. A feature of such houses was a communal kitchen for four families, where there were 4 separate fireplaces, which allowed each housewife to cook food at any time.
The atmosphere of the workers' quarter is still preserved here. As before, there is a shoemaker's workshop (1906), a bakery (1930) and a paper shop (1940).
The museum is open to the public from May to September, and the local cafe "Amurin Helmi" welcomes tourists all year round.
