Visit to the Emilio Bacardi Museum

Hello Hiverian family, I join again to participate in the weekend engagement themes.

I want to share with you my experience about the visit to the Emilio Bacardi Moreau Museum. The museum is a significant exponent of the historical center of my beloved Santiago. It was founded in 1899 by Emilio Bacardi and his wife. The place treasures valuable pre-Columbian samples, as well as belongings of the Cuban National Hero José Martí, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and other patriots.

Four of my classmates and I decided to go last Saturday. The five of us are editing a museum Magazine about the institution in question, so we had to face the most prepared edition.

Since we entered the museum we saw it with different eyes, we were no longer getting to know how the first visit but we were looking for the most curious elements because that's what the magazine is about.

The museum was declared a National Monument in 1999 and has three rooms, each located on different floors. We started the exploration by the third floor which is the Art room. There are countless collections of paintings, sculptures there; most of them brought from Europe by the founder himself and a few others donated. I loved a collection that was about the seasons, summer, winter... wonderful. A copy of La Gioconda welcomes you to the stay.

The second floor was the one that caught my attention the most, it's the History room. Emilio Bacardí as a good collector managed to group a few instruments used by aborigines and colonizers that would dazzle any Cuban. In that room there is a large part of the history of my country, the arrival of the aborigines, the conquest and colonization by the Spaniards as well as what happened in the independence wars. The room is guided by several posters with the intention of locating the visitor. All the objects captured my attention, in espacial, the torture instruments that the Spaniards used, I always saw them in textbooks, there only a glass separated us.

The third and last room is underground, its name is Ethnographies. There the discoveries of Bacardi in the lands of pharaohs are exposed. My friends were fascinated by the Egyptian mummy that is at the back of the place, I honestly did not want to get close, I found it interesting but from afar. In this room there are other collections of Mayan, Inca and Aztec tribes, giving that part a more mysterious touch, because there were even crushed heads, dissected bodies in strange positions.

The place is mega interesting, touring its rooms you explore different cultures, continents ... you travel next to Bacardi. Whoever visits the museum takes with him years of research, knowledge, lore, history…
What a pleasure it is to have this jewel in my city

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My native language is Spanish, I use theYandex translator