The Museo de las Parrandas Remedianas is dedicated entirely to Las Parrandas — Remedios's raucous December festival that pits the town's two rival neighbourhoods against each other in an annual battle of floats, fireworks, and elaborate illuminated towers. The museum occupies a colonial building a short walk from the Plaza Mayor and houses a permanent collection of working models, costumes, historical photographs, and the actual mechanisms used to animate past festival floats.
Even outside December, this museum gives you a real sense of the scale and intensity of the festival. The models of past winning floats — some several storeys high — show the extraordinary craftsmanship involved. If you cannot be in Remedios for Las Parrandas, this is the next best thing. Entry is cheap and the staff are often happy to explain the rivalry in detail.