Lenin Museum
The only museum in the western world devoted to Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, otherwise known as Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and founder of the Soviet Union, is in the Worker's Hall in Tampere, and it's a fascinating collection of posters, photos, and Soviet-era paraphernalia. The location was the meeting place of Lenin and Stalin in 1905 before the 1917 revolution, and the museum has an impressive list of visitors from cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to General Secretary Brezhnev. Founded in 1946, the museum was long an itinerary fixture for Soviet tourist groups right up to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. It remains one of Tampere's most surprising and memorable attractions.
