It was built in 1900 by the Tampere Workers' Society as a People's House for the local working-class.

Today the Workers' Hall include conference rooms, a restaurant as well as premises of the Social Democratic Party, University of Tampere and the Tampere Lenin Museum.

[1] In December 1905 Tampere Workers' Hall hosted the exile conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

[2] It was an unofficial meeting held between the 3rd and 4th Party Congresses in London and Stockholm.

Tampere Conference was the first time when Lenin and Stalin met in person.