Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean

Portal of Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean

Cuba - Museo La Isabelica (La Isabelica Museum)

This site was the coffee plantation of French colonist Víctor Constantan Couzo, which kept a work party of 25 slaves. Today it is a museum with 17 exhibit halls, showing 598 objects linked to the French-Haitian emigration. Around the house are the coffee mill, a lime kiln, rainwater cistern and the slave barracks.  

 

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La Isabelica was declared National Monument on December 30th, 1991, as part of a group of French coffee plantations in the south-eastern region of Cuba.


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La Isabelica Museum. Complementary constructions. Photo: Nilson Acosta
La Isabelica Museum. Detail of the foundation. Photo: Nilson Acosta
La Isabelica Museum. Archaeological remains of the complex. Photo: Nilson Acosta
La Isabelica Museum. Road network of fundamental importance for coffee plantation to function . Photo: Nilson Acosta
La Isabelica Museum. Coffee plantation surroundings. Photo: Nilson Acosta
La Isabelica Museum. Access to main house . Photo: Nilson Acosta
La Isabelica Museum. Artifacts on display. Photo: Nilson Acosta
La Isabelica Museum. Expressive potential of the main floor of the house . Photo: Nilson Acosta
La Isabelica Museum. Front view from coffee drying areas . Photo: Nilson Acosta
La Isabelica Museum. Coffee processing mill . Photo: Nilson Acosta
La Isabelica Museum. Museum display of traditional house in a coffee plantation. Photo: Nilson Acosta

Other data of interest

Cuba

Founding Date

1961 May 18

Classification

Conservation of Cultural Heritage

Address

Carretera de la Gran Piedra Km 14, Santiago de Cuba

Person in charge

Marisledy Bronett Horrutinier -

Objectives of the institution

Research, rescue, inventorying, exhibiting, preserving, promoting, programming and using of the various expressions of cultural heritage it holds, in particular the ethnographic collections linked to slavery and coffee growing in Cuba.