This wasn’t part of our original plan for a day trip to Tampere but so pleased we fitted in a trip. Very well laid out information in English. There’s plenty to read - if that’s your thing. My wife and I found it very thought provoking. Life under Czar Nicholas in Russia in 1917 wasn’t great but things got much worse.

A small but historically important museum. Our family of three especially enjoyed the Soviet style living room and Lenin on the motorcycle. Unfortunately this museum is soon closing for good so visit while you can!

This is a rather misnamed museum. Although it is in the building where Lenin met Stalin in 1905 and plotted the creation of the Soviet Union (and you can stand on the very spot were it happened), the actual museum deals with Lenin in about two or three cabinets and suddenly you are in the middle of the complicated relations between Russia and Finland that have existed since 1917. Good treatments of the Finnish Civil War and the Winter War and "War of Continuation", and then the collection gets very muddled indeed. It is hard to know what this museum is actually trying to do with their esoteric collection of Finnish artifacts and Soviet kitsch. The museum is closing in a few months to open in 2025 with a new theme that will be more in keeping with their actual opinions now. I enjoyed my visit. And the admission price was certainly reasonable. And they were one of the few places in Tampere I could find good tourist maps.