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The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.
It was claimed that Lenin promised independence to Finns while visiting Tampere. Especially president Urho Kekkonen overstressed Lenin’s role as a friend of Finland for Soviet leaders. The museum was ...
TAMPERE (Finland), Feb 18 — Finland has opened a museum depicting how ties with its eastern neighbour Russia have gone from frosty to friendly and back, revamping what was until now western Europe’s ...
Finland: Date with fate THE Lenin Museum in Tampere, the only institution outside Russia dedicated entirely to the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, closed officially on November 3. The museum opened in ...
Europe’s last Lenin museum — located in Finland — will soon close, a move that has spurred conspiracy theories in Russia, the museum’s director said on Wednesday. Of the handful museums dedicated to ...
Only the grave will fix the hunchback. 2. In the Finnish city of Tampere, the Lenin Museum, which had been operating since 1946, was closed. This museum remained the only one in Europe dedicated to ...
The only Lenin museum operating outside of Russia was closed in Finland on Nov. 3, Radio Liberty reported. The museum, dedicated to the leader of the Russian Bolsheviks, had been operating in the ...
The Lenin Museum in Tampere, Finland—the only museum outside Russia dedicated to Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin—closed officially on Nov. 3. A new political museum at the same site will open on Feb. 15, ...
Warehouses have busts and statues of Stalin in their thousands. I remember going to Tampere in Finland in the mid-1980s where the Lenin Museum had dozens of busts of Lenin. Why dozens? Because nearly ...
Tampere's Lenin Museum has attracted an exceptional number of visitors ahead of its closure this autumn. A total of 3,351 people visited the museum in Tampere in July, which is the museum's highest ...
The museum, the first to be dedicated to Vladimir Lenin outside the former Soviet Union, will see its last visitors in December 2024. The museum is located in the Tampere Workers’ Hall, the historic ...