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Museum of Work and Culture

Category: Monuments + Museums

45 South Main Street, Woonsocket, RI 2830
401.769.9675

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Set up in a former textile mill, the Museum of Work and Culture examines the lives of American factory workers and owners during the Industrial Revolution. Focusing on French Canadian immigrants to Woonsocket's mills, the museum's walk-through exhibits begin with a 19th-century Quebecois farmhouse, ...
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Woonsocket - The Museum of Work and Culture
In keeping with the trend toward converting old industrial buildings to new uses, the museum itself is housed in a former textile mill. Originally the Barnai Worsted Company and later the Lincoln Textile Company, renovations began in 1996 and the museum opened in October, 1997. In the Museum Store, ...
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Woonsocket, RI - Museum of Work & Culture
For students, the Museum tells the story of local culture, immigration and enterprise in the Blackstone Valley through films, interactive audio, "please touch" exhibits, and displays including over 200 photographs, as well as changing exhibits. The can experience the sights and sounds of a...
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Mule Spinner, Museum of Work and Culture. Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
These spinning machines replaced the single-person spinning wheels used before the mechanization of the textile industry, and a machine like this one could do the work of one hundred hand workers. The factory worker (or operative ) who supervised the operation had to make sure that threads didn't br...
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Museum of Work and Culture - Woonsocket - Reviews of Museum of Work and Culture - TripAdvisor
I visited the Museum with my sister and brother, on Sunday August 17th, 2003. We received a cordial greeting fom the couple who manage the facility. We also spoke at length with the gentleman in charge, who had much to tell us about Woonsocket's rich heritage in Mill History, and Union Development. ...
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Museum of Work and Culture, Woonsocket, RI : Reviews of Museum of Work and Culture - Yahoo! Travel
Traces history of mill workers from Quebec farms and presents the unique Woonsocket labor story of the rise of the Independent Textile Union. School and group tou...
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Quahog.org: The Museum of Work and Culture
A large portion of Woonsocket's current population is still of Franco-Canadian descent, and typical Québécois names like Fortin, Roy, Tremblay, Gagnon, and Levesque are common in the area. A massive mural on Main Street reads Bienvenu a Woonsocket. However, the era of Woonsocket as an indu...
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