Kids-Copenhagen

Kids’ activities and play at The Workers Museum

Brings the kids to the Workers Museum and experience the presence of history and childhood, every day and work life in the 1930s. Don’t forget that all children under 18 have free entry to the museum.

Treasure hunt in the old building

When you visit the Workers Museum, you are also visiting the 130-year-old Meeting House, built by the workers themselves. You can dive deeper into history with our treasure hunt for both children and adults. On the treasure hunt through the building, the goal is to find different objects and places, which contain interesting stories in the old rooms. The treasure hunt takes you all around the building, where many treasures and funny stories are hidden. You will be given a guide to the treasure hunt when you arrive at the museum.

The Children’s Workers Museum

On the ground floor of the Meeting House, kids of all ages can play their way back in time at the Kids’ Workers Museum. Here you can learn more about what exactly a worker is, and what it was like being the child of a worker in the 1930s. You can get up close to some of the toys that children played with in the old days. Have a closer look at a large doll’s house, an old-fashioned television set showing the classic Danish TV-series about the working-class girl, Sonja from Saxogade, and colour, cut and play with dressing dolls.

Delivery boys and Nørrebro quarter girls

Let the kids dress up in clothes from the 1930s. Dresses, vests, hats and clogs, and they are ready to explore history. After dressing up, they can try the bicycles the delivery boys in Copenhagen ran errands on before going to school. They can try the brewery-game, and learn about how children also had jobs, even though they also had to go to school. In-between work, school and the chores at home, it could also be time for a dance at the dancing school. Visit the little dance school and look at the pretty clothes the dancers wore back then.

“What will it be?”

In the shop, you can try an old-time cash-register, look at the nice goods to be weighed and taken out of the wooden drawers. What did they have for dinner in the 1930s? And what did soda, soap and coffee look like, when grandmother was a child? Learn more in the shop. At times, the wages of a worker weren’t enough to buy everything that was needed, and a visit was made to the pawnbroker’s shop. At the pawnbroker, you could exchange your bag, fur or lamp into money. You can try this at the pawnbroker in the Kids’ Workers Museum.

In the small union office, you can try stamping, writing on a typewriter and take phone calls on an old-fashion telephone. You can also pay Prime Minister Thorvald Stauning a visit, see what his elegant office looked like, and watch the film “Little Stauning” about his childhood as a working-class boy at the beginning of the 1900s.