Museum of the Chinese Communist Party

The Museum of the Chinese Communist Party (Chinese: 中国共产党历史展览馆; officially the Museum of the Communist Party of China) is located at the intersection of Beichen East Road and Datun North Road, in Chaoyang District of Beijing, China.

[4] There are 4,548 pieces or sets of cultural relics on permanent display in the museum, including 420 original state-level cultural relics, such as Karl Marx's Brussel IV notebook, Mao Zedong's coat and hat worn at the Proclamation of the People's Republic of China, the first Five-Star Red Flag of China raised by pressing the button, Mao Zedong's drafting and Zhou Enlai's handwritten inscription on the Monument to the People's Heroes, Li Dazhao's autobiography after his arrest and the gallows for his death, Chen Wangdao's translation of The Communist Manifesto and the Old Summer Palace bronze heads.

[5] The main building area of the museum is nearly 150,000-square-metre (1,600,000 sq ft), of which nearly two-thirds is exhibition space.

[1] There are 28 pillars on the east and west sides of the museum, symbolizing the CCP's 28 years of struggle to establish the People's Republic of China from 1921 to 1949.

[1] Chang Shana, who participated in the design of the Great Hall of the People and the Cultural Palace of Nationalities, personally led the team to design the chapiters, pedestals, architraves, lattice walls, copper doors and emblem of the museum.