Emilio Bacardi Moreau Museum (Museo Municipal Emilio Bacardi Moreau)

The Emilio Bacardi Moreau Museum, located in a beautiful 1929 Neoclassical edifice, is one of Cuba's oldest museums, with an extraordinary collection of art and artifacts from throughout the world. Prehistory, the Spanish Conquest, the War of Independence, and the Revolution are all included in the collection. Most of the items were purchased by Emilio Bacardi Moreau, a Cuban politician and writer who traveled to Egypt in 1912 to purchase a mummy.

Artifacts from the Amerindians, the conquistadors, and the slave trade, as well as personal belongings from national heroes like Carlos Manuel Cespedes and Jose Marti, are among the exhibitions. The art exhibit, which comprises national and international artists, is perhaps the most remarkable part of the museum, while the archeological section contains Egyptian and Peruvian mummies as well as Amazonian shrunken heads.