The Josip Broz Tito Political School was founded in 1975 as the central educational institution for the staff of the Communist Union of Yugoslavia. It was originally based in another building in Kumrovec, which is now known as the Memorial House of the Fighters and Youth of Yugoslavia.

Tito said that the school was needed to give party members a stronger theoretical education.

The modernist building is appreciated by many architects and lovers of brutalism, but it is now surrounded by unkept grass, with broken windows and a damaged roof, while its once impressive interior is full of dust, dirt and rubbish. Grass is even growing inside the building.

The property includes the building on four floors with a floor space of 5,901 square metres, with lecture halls, a sports hall and 145 bedrooms.

In late 1991, displaced people from the besieged town of Vukovar were accommodated in the building.