After the start of the Cold War, Berthold Lubetkin, manage to hire a crane and save the original Lenin statue.Until 1951, when the statue was moved into storage. During the 1970s, the Lenin statue was displayed at Islington Town Hall until it was vandalized once again when somebody threw red paint all over it.

It was only in 1996 that the statue moved to the Islington Museum, where it is on permanent display until today. This was the place that I wanted to visit during my time in London, and I was quite surprised to find this statue of Lenin is such an interesting museum.

The Islington Museum is a small local museum focused on telling the story of this part of London. It shows how the Islington district developed from many small manors in medieval times to the Royal Agricultural Hall that was built in 1862. There you can also learn a lot about what happened in the area during the Second World War and a lot more from the later years. The museum is free and its main focal point, at least for me, is the only statue of Lenin in London.

Some say that Berthold Lubetkin itself sculpted this statue of Lenin, but it seems that he wasn’t a sculptor. It would appear that he was the one that designed this statue with a rugged modernist look to it, but I couldn’t find anything about the original artist. I read an article that points the author as a Russian artist known as A. Kow, but they can be wrong about it too. I don’t know.

I saw the statue with the corner of my eye once I went down the stairs that lead to the Islington Museum. I wasn’t sure if I was in the right place, so I went to the desk to ask about it. The woman there looked quite surprised when I asked about it, but she pointed me straight to it, and I was happy to add another Lenin statue to my collection.