Emilio Bacardi Moreau Museum, Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba

4.0 (154 reviews) Spent Ranking #14 in Santiago de Cuba Province Speciality Museums

Private Collection

This museum, just in walking distance from Cespedes Plaza, displays the private collection of the famous Bacardi family: paintings, costumes, accessories, tools and equipments, pistols, swords, even mummies. The building of the museum is quite beautiful as well. Unfortunately it's forbidden to take pictures inside. Tough all the explanations are written in Spanish only, still one can get a lot of information about 18th and 19th century high society life in Cuba. I recommend to visit this museum.
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Address

Esquina Aguilera y Pio Rosado s/n , Santiago de Cuba, Caribbean.

Mobile

+53 22 628402

Website

http://www.vintagecarstours.com

Current local date and time now

Friday, May 10, 2024, 14:25

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4.0 based on (154 reviews)

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Reviews

4Coral Queen 5:00 PM Jun 27, 2011
Interesting - Glad We Went.
The last time we walked up those steps of the Emilio Bacardi Museum was in 1999 but we only checked it out – didn’t go through it. This year we said what the heck….it was hot and sunny and we had time to burn so decided finally to tour the Museum. It cost 2 CUC’s each plus 1 CUC to take pictures…..(total of 5 CUC’s for the 2 of us) Was given the impression that I was only allowed to take pictures of certain things……so I didn’t take any pictures of the artifacts……just the different busts, statues and a few paintings. The main floor had rifles, pistols, antique daggers and personal effects and uniforms of leading figures and heroes. There was an array of artifacts including slave shackles, etc…. The second floor was the art gallery along with bronze sculptures. In the basement there were some mummies and a shrunken head, etc…. We found the staff there quite helpful and if we had a question…..just had to ask one of the ladies that was at hand. Even directed us to the basement. And the ladies in the upstairs gallery even asked us if we needed any help. Our experience here was very positive and interesting and we were glad that after so many years we finally decided to tour this museum.
4JulienQc 5:00 PM Apr 7, 2016
Diversified museum
This museum displays paintings (2nd floor) along with an historical tour of the revolution (1st floor) and some weird items, totally unrelated to Cuba, collected by M. Moreau over the years, including an Egyptian mummy (?). There are some interesting exhibits. I was impressed by the antique wooden torpedo-submarine, moved by an electric battery.