Museum of the Revolution (Cuba)

For a museum in El Salvador, see Museum of the Revolution (El Salvador).

Museo de la Revolución

The Museum of the Revolution (Spanish: Museo de la Revolución) is a museum located in the Old Havana section of Havana, Cuba. The museum is housed in what was the Presidential Palace of all Cuban presidents from Mario García Menocal to Fulgencio Batista. It became the Museum of the Revolution during the years following the Cuban revolution.

Building

The former Presidential Palace was designed by the Cuban architect Carlos Maruri and the Belgian architect Paul Belau and was inaugurated in 1920 by President Mario García Menocal. It remained the Presidential Palace until 1959. The building has Neo-Classical elements, and was decorated by Tiffany & Co. of New York.

Exhibits

The museum's Cuban history exhibits are largely devoted to the period of the revolutionary war of the 1950s and to the country's post-1959 history. Portions of the museum are also devoted to pre-revolutionary Cuba, including its War of Independence waged against Spain.

Behind the building lies the Granma Memorial, a large glass enclosure which houses the Granma, the yacht which took Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba for the revolution. Around the Granma an SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile of the type that shot down a U.S. Lockheed U-2 spyplane during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the engine of the U-2 airplane is displayed. There are also various vehicles and tanks used in the revolution displayed. Near the museum is located an SU-100, a Soviet tank destroyer.

Gallery

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  Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos statues on display in the museum

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  Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos guns and caps

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  The palace ballroom

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  The engine of the Lockheed U-2 which was shot down above Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis

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  Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez's space suit

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  Fulgencio Batista's gold-plated telephone

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  Hawker Sea Fury F50 at the museum

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  SU-100 at the museum

External links

Cuba portal

• The Museo de la Revolución's home page (In Spanish)
• English travel guide to the Museum of the Revolution

Coordinates: 23°08′30″N 82°21′24″W / 23.14167°N 82.35667°W / 23.14167; -82.35667

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