If phalanxes of red tractors, bumper harvests, muscled peasants and lantern-jawed proletariats fire you up, this small gallery in the bowels of a residential block should intoxicate. The collection of 3000 original posters from the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s – the golden age of Maoist poster production – will have you weak-kneed at the cartoon world of anti-US defiance.
The centre divides into a showroom and a shop selling posters and postcards. Once you find the main entrance, a guard will pop a small business card with a map on it into your hands and point you the way. Head around the back of the apartment blocks to Building B and take the lift to the basement. It’s a good idea to phone ahead (they speak some English) before heading out here to make sure it’s open. The exhibition rounds off with a collection of cigarette posters from the 1920s.
