Casa Particular
Casa Vistamar, Matanzas, Cuba
Museums in Matanzas Province.
Matanzas - Bellamar cave - Museums - Pharmacy museum - Triunvirato sugar mill
Museums "Playa Giron".
This museum is devoted to the Cuban victory against the Bay of Pigs' mercenary
invasion financed by the United States' government on April 1961. By several
means, the most important facts, documents, testimonies, photos, occupied
weapons, and other objects related to the invasion are exhibited there.
Address: Playa Girón, Ciénaga de Zapata.
Museum to the Struggle of Ideas.
It was inaugurated by Cuban President Fidel Castro in the Cardenas municipality, place of residence of the boy Elián González, who was subjected
to a kidnap attempt by the far-right-wing Cuban mafia at Miami. The attempt
was frustrated owing to the worldwide reaction in favor of the father's
request for the child. From that moment on, the so-called "struggle of ideas"
began to take place on the island and its first steps are displayed in the
museum.
Address: Avenida José Martí and Maceo, Cárdenas.Pharmaceutical Museum
The museum was inaugurated in 1964 in the former Arms Square of
Matanzas, in the same place where the so-called French drugstore was located in 1882. The
museum exhibits collections of flasks of polychromatic porcelain, a
prizewinner dispensary table (bronze medal in the Paris Exposition of 1900),
together with implements used for the production of medicines.
Address: Milanés # 4951 between Santa Teresa and Ayuntamiento.
Museum "Oscar María de Rojas".
Containing
treasures the history of Cardenas, rightfully named "Flag City" due to the
fact that it was the place where the national flag was displayed for the first
time in 1850. Its attractions are complemented by collections devoted to
natural sciences, weapons, arts, and other topics related to a territory where
infinity of relevant facts took place.Address: Calzada # 4, Cárdenas, Matanzas.