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Celebration: 10th Anniversary
of the Havana Club Museum
By: Mercy Ramos | Photos: José (Tito) Meriño
Majestic 18th Century columns shade the elegant patio that welcomes visitors to the Havana Club Museum, one of the must-go places for those (locals and tourists) seeking the best taste of Cuban rum.
In 2010 the Havana Club showcase, as it is now known to its more than one million visitors, is all decked out to celebrate its first decade.
The gong of a large bell welcomes the arrival of visitors and announces the start of a tour of the facility and the discovery of the marvellous world of rum-making, as it was made since the time of slavery in Cuba.
During the tour of the large mansion that serves as the museum’s venue, visitors can see - and even touch - freshly cut sugarcane, slave huts as there were on the plantations, sugar mills, steam machines and aspects of the processing industry.
There is also a large-scale model of a sugar plantation, made by Cuban artist Lázaro García Driggs, which includes a railroad network, sugar mills and all the
