The Museum of the Revolution in Old Havana occupies the former Presidential Palace. Cuban architect Rodolfo Maruri and Belgian architect Paul Belau designed it. They also designed the Centro Gallego, now the Gran Teatro de La Habana. President Mario García Menocal inaugurated the palace in 1920, and Cuban presidents from Menocal to Fulgencio Batista used it until the revolution of 1959. Tiffany Studios of New York decorated it.
The infobox lists the style as Eclectic, while the article notes Neoclassical elements and gives no dimensions.
In March 1957, the Directorio Revolucionario 13 de Marzo attacked the palace in an attempt to kill Batista. The attack also included a takeover of Radio Reloj at the Radiocentro CMQ Building, and both parts failed. After 1959 the building became a museum. Its exhibits cover the 1950s revolutionary war, post-1959 history, the 1895 to 1898 War of Independence and Abraham Lincoln.
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