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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Goodbye Lenin: Finnish museum reinvents itself in response to shifting relations with Russia

A statue of  Vladimir Lenin inside the  Nootti Museum in Tampere, Finland
A statue of Lenin inside the Nootti Museum in Tampere. Themes include the collapse of the Russian empire, Finnish independence and Stalin’s terror. Photograph: Alessandro Rampazzo/AFP/Getty Images

A Finnish museum dedicated to the Russian Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin has reopened under a new name and with new exhibits in response to rapidly changing relations between two neighbouring countries after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which closed in November, reopened this month under a new name, Nootti, which refers to the Finnish word for a diplomatic note.

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