Sun Yat Sen Museum Penang
Restored nineteenth-century shophouse where a secret revolutionary society plotted the end of an empire.
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This guide opens inside an Armenian Street shophouse registered in 1910 as a quiet reading club, the cover for the underground Penang branch of Sun Yat Sen's revolutionary alliance plotting to end the Qing empire. It follows Sun's visit that November, when he stood before the room broke and out of allies, and the pledge that followed from local supporters, including a shopkeeper who gave away his own family's properties. Look for the second door cut into the back wall, built so the men meeting here could vanish into the alley behind.
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