Museo Napoleonico

The Napoleon Museum in Havana, Cuba, features one of the most important collections of the 18th and 19th centuries in the Western hemisphere. The museum is located on San Miguel Street, between Ronda and Mazón, on one side of Havana University. The museum opened in 1961, with Julio Lobo's collection, in a 1929 Florentine Renaissance-style estate called "La Dolce Dimora," which was the property of an Italian-Cuban politician named Orestes Ferrara. Evelio Govantes and Félix Cabarrocas, who also created El Capitolio and the Casa de la Amistad on Paseo, were the architects.

The museum houses almost 8,000 objects, the majority of which date from the French Revolution to the Second Empire. A specialist library, clothing, weapons, military equipment, furnishings, coins, and historic and ornamental artifacts are among the items in the collection. Artwork by Louis Tocqué, Jean-Marc Nattier, Nicolas de Largillière, Jean Baptiste Regnault, François Flameng, Andrea Appiani, and Robert Léfèvre is on show. Napoleon's death mask, delivered by Dr. Francesco Antommarchi, the last doctor to treat Napoleon on Saint Helena, who died in Santiago de Cuba, is on exhibit, as is Napoleon's telescope.

Google rating: 4.7/5.0
Address: San Miguel, La Habana, Cuba

Phone number: (+537) 8791412.
Official site: https://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/places/museo-napoleonico-cuba-2/