Exhibition

The museum is located in Tampere Workers’ Hall, in the same room where Stalin and Lenin met for the first time at a secret Bolshevik meeting in 1905. The exhibition shows the poignant and remarkable history of Finnish eastern relations and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.

The exhibition leads visitors through the turbulent revolutionary unrest of the 20th century to Stalin’s prison camps, the tumult of the Second World War and the days of the Cold War. The story continues through the collapse of the Soviet Union up to Putin’s Russia.

The Lenin Museum exhibition shows items such as the table at which Lenin sat writing his book, The State and Revolution, in 1917. A scale model of a prison camp, made for the exhibition, shows the horrors of the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. You can tour the daily life of Soviet citizens in the Tallinn-style sitting room of the exhibition.

To make your visit truly memorable, you might end it by mounting a Soviet-style Dnepr motorcycle and getting a shot of yourself, with ‘Lenin’ seated in the sidecar.

The narrative on the war in Ukraine and the chronicle of the Russian state in the 21st century are now on display at the Lenin Museum. The New millennium exhibition, which opens to the public on Tuesday  January 17, 2023 discloses the creation and crystallization of Russia’s authoritarianism from 2000.

Since February 2022, Lenin Museum has unequivocally opposed the war and supported Ukraine. In 2022, the Museum donated a total of 11,505 euros to UNICEF to help Ukrainian children and families. Our support will continue, and from the beginning of 2023, the Museum will donate to UNICEF one euro of every ticket sold.