Museum of the Revolution

Havana’s Museum of the Revolution occupies the former Presidential Palace (1913–20), where republican ceremony once played out beneath Tiffany & Co. chandeliers in the Hall of Mirrors . Recast after 1959, the building frames the 1953–59 insurgency and its aftermath as a founding story of modern Cuba, turning state rooms into a charged archive of sacrifice, ideology, and power. For many Cubans it remains both a civic shrine and a site of argument over what the revolution promised—and what it became.