Museo Taller Ferrowhite

Located in Ingeniero White, port of the city of Bahia Blanca, in Argentina, Ferrowhite is a museum that houses tools recovered by a group of workers after the privatization and partial scrapping of the railways in the 1990s.

Hammers, lathes and tongs; reamers, saws and whorls; coppersmiths, knives and whetstones are the starting point to try to understand how the workshops in which these tools were used were organized, what the order and conflicts of the society they served were like, and how things are like today in comparison.

Ferrowhite defines itself as a workshop museum. "A place where things are not only exhibited, but also made. And what does a workshop museum produce? A museum workshop generates new tools. Tools to broaden our understanding of the present and, therefore, our perspective of the future, forged in the work with objects and documents of the past, but also in the body to body with the life experience of hundreds, thousands of workers who are part of, and shape, that history".

Books and shopping bags, videos and survival rafts, theatre and toolboxes, try to configure new ways of understanding life in common, by revising the consecrated hierarchies when it comes to telling the past, analysing the current situation or imagining the future.