The Memorial of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China

The Memorial of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China
中共一大会址纪念馆

Address: 374 Huangpi Road, Huangpu district, Shanghai
Website: www.zgyd1921.com/zgyd/node3/index.html
Hours: 9:00 - 17:00 (no entry after 16:00)
Closed Mondays (except for national holidays)
General admission: free (passport required for entry, a max of 3,500 admitted daily)

The memorial is set to protect the site of the CPC’s first national congress in 1921.It was founded in 1952 with the site restored to its original appearance. In 1984, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping (1904-97) inscribed the name for the memorial hall.

The memorial displays documents, objects, newspapers, books and photographs reflecting the various historic moments of CPC from the First Opium War (1840-42) to the period of the socialist revolution and construction (1949-78).The number of cultural relics in the museum exceed 100,000.

Some of the displays in the permanent exhibition include diaries and letters of martyrs, and an English typewriter used by Li Dazhao (1889-1927), one of the two main leaders of the May Fourth Movement in 1919 who later founded the CPC in 1921,all of which are valuable cultural and historical relics of the museum.

An installation of waxworks vividly restores the scene back when where 15 attendees of the first CPC national congress sat around the table and fully engaged in the discussion.