The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas is dedicated to the lives of local workers, and illustrates their participation in politics and visual arts, as well as the role of trade unions, and the improvement of working conditions in factories. The textile section of the museum displays 25 machines and more than 3,000 items produced by textile workers in Tampere. The Museum is located in the original site of the largest Finnish company for cotton manufacturing. The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas is an Individual Site of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.