Turku is Finland’s oldest city, former capital, and third largest city. Therefore, it is full of history. One museum that I visited while I was in Turku was the Sibelius Museum (officially spelled the Swedish way: Sibeliusmuseum). Both the Sibelius Museum and the music notation software, Sibelius, are named after Jean Sibelius, Finland’s most famous…
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Museokeskus Vapriikki
Tampere is a city in southern Finland that is approximately a two-hour drive north of Finland’s capital city of Helsinki. The city was once home to numerous industries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as can be attested by the presence of old factory buildings there. Nevertheless, the buildings are well-kept and the city…
Lenin Museum in Tampere, Finland
One of the strangest museums that I have ever visited was the Lenin Museum in Tampere, Finland. As its name implies, it is dedicated to the first leader of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin. It is currently the only museum outside of Russia dedicated to him. Finland has a museum focused on Lenin, because the…
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