Mao Zedong himself directed the institute in 1926, and gave lectures on geography, rural education, and The Problem of the Chinese Peasantry.
Mao Zedong lectured on rural education and geography.
The northern European rooms include a splendid Portrait of His Father (1490) by Albrecht D??rer; Adam and Eve (1528) by Lucas Cranach; Richard Southwell by Hans Holbein; and a moving Mater Doloroseby Joos van Cleve.