Museum of the Revolution
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- For a museum in El Salvador, see Museum of the Revolution (El Salvador).
The Museum of the Revolution (Spanish: Museo de la Revolución) is a museum about the Cuban Revolution of the 1950s, located in Havana, Cuba.
The museum lies in Habana Vieja (Old Havana) in a palatial building which used to be the presidential palace of all Cuban presidents from Mario García Menocal to Fulgencio Batista.
Behind the building lies the Granma Memorial, where the Granma, the yacht which took Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba for the revolution, is displayed in a large glass building. 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.
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Refugio No. 1 entre Avenida de las Misiones y Zulueta, La Habana Vieja, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba
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 Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos statues on display in the museum |
 The palace ballroom |
