Getting to the Museum, going to work - it's all a matter of transportation:
Starting at Barmbek Station, the various stages become visible
by which Hamburg's workers have got to work in the industrial
age - by what means of transportation, from which regions, and
in what kind of specific historical circumstances.
What were the distances between the workers' living quarters and
their places of work? Which means of transport did they use, or
did they walk? How did those who worked for the New York-Hamburger
Gummi-Waaren Compagnie, on whose former premises the Museum der
Arbeit is now located, get here over the years? Finally, how did
those numerous immigrants get to Hamburg whose influx began to
swell the population total from the 1880's onwards?
Historical ways of getting to work - working one's way into history
- sign-posts around the Museum will give even the casual passer-by
some clues to untangle.
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