Museum of Colonial Art

The Museum of Colonial Art occupies an 18th c. mansion in Old Havana, where arcaded galleries and a shaded courtyard evoke the domestic world of Cuba’s Spanish elite. Its rooms preserve furniture, porcelain, silver, and painting as evidence of how wealth, trade, and Catholic ritual were performed in everyday life across the Caribbean. Seen today, the museum is less a celebration of splendor than a lens on the social hierarchies and cultural mixtures that shaped Havana under empire.