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
National Day of Mourning
The National Day of Mourning is a day to remember and honour those lives lost or injured due to [...]
Pat McGrath Scholarship Winner 2023
Krystal Gray from Guelph, ON, is the recipient of the Workers’ History Museum Pat McGrath Scholarship for 2023. She [...]
2023 Events at a Glance
As the world got back to some sort of normal living, 2023 was a very busy year for the [...]