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The Workers Arts & Heritage Centre is here to fulfill its mandate of preserving, honouring, and promoting the culture & history of all working people. Our Mandate points in the social justice direction, the union direction and the community activism path. We hope that future generations will follow.

WAHC’s goal is to create an activist cultural and educational experience. The contributions of working people - not only in Canada history but worldwide - are showcased in art, exhibits, and performances. Their labour has made this country a fair and vibrant place to live and work. We acknowledge the struggles of the labour movement. Without them, Canadians would not be living in a country ranked among the best in the world.

The Centre is more than a museum. It was conceived in the late 1980’s by a dynamic group of labour historians, artists, and union and community activists who gathered together to discuss the need for a place where workers’ history could be celebrated. In 1996, after intense work by a volunteer board of directors, the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre opened the doors of its permanent home, the historic Custom House in Hamilton’s north end.

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