Tampere Lenin Museum

Museum in Tampere, Finland
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61°29′45″N 23°45′06″E / 61.4958°N 23.7517°E / 61.4958; 23.7517TypeMultiple generational historyHistorianFinnish Labour Museum WerstasOwner
  • Finland-Russia Society
  • Finland-Soviet Union Society
Websitewww.lenin.fi/en/

The Tampere Lenin Museum (Finnish: Lenin-museo) is a museum devoted to Vladimir Lenin in Tampere, Finland. It was established in 1946 by the Finland–Soviet Union Society, and today it is run by The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas. It was the first museum dedicated to Lenin outside the Soviet Union, and is now the only surviving one located outside Russia.

The museum is located in the Tampere Workers' Hall. Built in 1900, the building hosted underground meetings of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905 and 1906. During December 1905, Vladimir Lenin met Joseph Stalin in person for the first time at the Tampere conference of 1905 deliberating the civil disorder of the Russian Revolution of 1905.

The museum has a permanent exhibition with material related to Lenin's life and the history of the Soviet Union. It also organizes varying exhibitions on different themes.[1] The museum was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples in 1986 by the council of Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the museum has developed a more critical view to Lenin's work and the Soviet Union.[2]

In April 2024, the museum announced that it would close at the end of the year and reopen in February 2025 under the name Nootti, in reference to the Note Crisis in 1961 between Finland and the Soviet Union. The museum's director, Kalle Kallio, said that the changes were meant to reflect the changes in Finland–Russia relations and added that the museum's old name did not "do justice" to its exhibits.[3]

Gallery

Frontal view of Lenin Museum
Exterior signage of Lenin Museum
Entrance to Tampere Workers’ Hall
Finnish Lenin Museum observance plaque
Gallery of Tampere Workers’ Hall

References

  1. ^ Visit Tampere Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  2. ^ Tampere Lenin Museum Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Goodbye Lenin — Tampere museum commemorating Soviet revolutionary to close". Yle. 24 April 2024. Retrieved 24 April 2024.

See also

♦ Bolshevik Party ♦ Russian State Duma
Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union ♦ Tauride Palace
Russian Empire Treaty for Establishment of Soviet Union

External links

  • Media related to Tampere Lenin Museum at Wikimedia Commons
  • Tampere Lenin Museum Official Homepage
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