Hamburg Museum of Work

It examines and displays the social cultural and economic effects of industrialisation.

The museum is an anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH).

On 1 January 2008, the management of the museum passed to the Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg.

[1] The first director was Gernot Krankenhagen (1997–2004), followed by Lisa Kosok (2004–2008) and Kirsten Baumann (2009–2013).

[2] Outside the museum is the cutting head of tunnel boring machine, TRUDE (Tief Runter Unter Die Elbe), used in cutting the tunnels under the Elbe.