The National Revolution Museum near El Prado covers the 1952 Bolivian National Revolution — one of the most significant political events in 20th-century Latin American history — and the subsequent decades of coup, counter-coup, and democratic consolidation. The 1952 revolution nationalised the tin mines, gave women the vote, and enacted the most sweeping land reform in Bolivian history; the museum places this in a broader context of indigenous rights and political struggle that still resonates.
The exhibits are primarily in Spanish but detailed enough for anyone with an interest in Latin American history to find worthwhile. Combined with a visit to Plaza Murillo and the Museo Nacional de Arte, this makes a reasonable circuit of the historic centre's political and cultural history.