Your Definitive Source of Ottawa Workers’ History
Since 2011, the Workers’ History Museum has celebrated, interpreted, and preserved the history, heritage and culture of working people in the National Capital Region, the Ottawa Valley and far beyond.
WHM creates permanent, travelling and virtual exhibits, maintains an extensive photographic archive and an artefact collection, organizes storytelling evenings, walking tours, oral history seminars and other events, publishes books and graphic novels and even makes movies. Our collections are focused on workers as individuals, as well as employees, as trades, as industry and many other aspects of the life of working people.
The volunteer board collaborates with other heritage, academic and labour organizations to bring workers’ history to the public, over a wide range of platforms.
Latest Projects
The Eddy Papermill Collection
FIGHTING BACK, HOW BONNIE ROBICHAUD MADE HISTORY
WHAT IS A FAMILY? THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL BENEFITS
Latest Happenings
2023 Events at a Glance
As the world got back to some sort of normal living, 2023 was a very busy year for the [...]
Welcome Hannah
We had some very good candidates for our research assistant for this summer. We selected Hannah McCourtie, who is [...]
Meet our new employee, Leslie Hutchinson
We are pleased to introduce you to Leslie Hutchinson, our new Curator and Collections Manager and our first full-time [...]