The Sun Yat-sen Museum Penang is in a historic house. Sun Yat-sen devised many of his plans to overthrow the
Qing Dynasty in the museum building. In 1910, acting on the immense support among
overseas Chinese for the ousting of the Qing dynasty, Sun moved the southeast Asian headquarters of the
Tongmenghui party to Penang. When Sun first brought his family to Penang in 1910, the building housed the Penang Philomatic Union reading club. The club was a cover for Sun's political party. On 14 November 1910, Sun Yat-sen chaired an emergency meeting of the
Nanyang Tongmenghui in this house and launched the fundraising campaign for the
Second Guangzhou Uprising. It was in this building that Sun Yat-sen delivered his famous speech at the
1910 Penang Conference, and raised Straits Dollars $8000 on the spot. In 2007, the international Chinese movie
Road To Dawn, based on Dr. Sun Yat Sen's revolutionary activities in Penang, filmed the reenactment of the Emergency Meeting of the
1910 Penang Conference in this museum. The house was extensively renovated in 2010–11, with special changes to its façade and roof. The craftsman for the renovation project came from
Quanzhou, southern China. ==Sun Yat Sen Heritage Trail==