Musée Lenine

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The Lenin Museum, museum of France within the meaning of Act No. 2002-5 of 4 January 2002, was located 4 rue Marie-Rose in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He occupied the apartment in which Lenin lived, his sister, his wife and his mother-in-law from July 1909 to June 1912.

This apartment was purchased by the French Communist Party in the aftermath of World War II, in order to make it a place of memory. While rumours have been circulating about the sale of this apartment for several years in the context of the electoral and financial withdrawal of the PCF, the Lenin museum closed in 2007. The plaque mentioning Lenin's passage in this building was removed, but his trace on the facade remains visible.

The apartment was then occupied by the premises of the magazine Europe. It seems to have been sold for a symbolic euro in February 2018 The only Lenin museum, outside Russia, still permanently open in the world would be Tampere, Finland.