Shoeworkers’ photographs and oral histories are available online at our new Interactive Oral History site.  Add your own story to our growing collection.

Museum L-A’s permanent exhibit focuses on the textile and shoe making industries of Lewiston-Auburn and the people who worked in them.

Temporary exhibits explore, through history and art, themes within the worker culture and may include: organized labor, the role of women in the workplace, child labor, changes in technology, immigration, culture, and community.

Explore the following pages to learn about the exhibits we are currently showing.

If in viewing these exhibits, they remind you of a story in your own life, please share it with us!