The former presidential palace in Havana, Cuba—an elegant, eclectic, domed building—today serves as the Museum of the Revolution, an ode to Fidel Castro and his 26th of July Movement. The building, which opened in 1920 as the residence and office of President Mario Garcia Menocal, is located on the border between Old Havana and Central Havana. A corner watchtower from the original sixteenthcentury city wall that once surrounded Old Havana still stands in front of the building, across from a tank used by then-commander in chief Fidel Castro ‘‘during the mercenary invasion at Bay of Pigs in April 1961.’’1 The palace, with its staircase of Carrara marble and ornate salons, continued to serve as the office of the president and meeting place of the Council of Ministers until 1965. It was designated as the Museum of the Revolution in the early 1970s. Since that time, the former presidential palace has served as the principal interpretive site for the history of the revolution in Havana.