Lenin Museum

The Lenin Museum is the first Lenin Museum established outside the Soviet Union and is currently the only permanent museum outside Russia dedicated to the life and work of the leader of the revolution and the era of socialism.

This museum was founded on January 20, 1946 on the anniversary of Lenin’s death (January 21). A proposal to establish a museum was made in the 1920s, shortly after the country gained independence. After the collapse of the USSR and the closure of the Central Lenin Museum in Moscow (1993), the museum in Tampere remained the only Lenin Museum in the world, which is open permanently. In 1993, the museum received the lowest number of visitors, but the number of visitors resumed. Much of the revival of interest in the museum was influenced by the news from Reuters that Lenin’s body was supposedly to be transferred to the institution (in fact, it turned out to be a joke by the director of the museum, Aimo Minkkinen).