Museo Municipal de Varadero

The municipal museum occupies a handsome 1920s wooden summer villa on Calle 57, close to the main beach. The collection is modest — period furniture, photographs, documents, and objects relating to Varadero's pre-revolutionary history — but the building itself is the attraction. It's one of the few wooden structures from the original Cuban resort era still standing on the peninsula.

Entry is cheap and the visit takes about 30 minutes. The staff are usually willing to explain the exhibits in Spanish.

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The museum building is a 1920s wooden summer house, one of the oldest surviving structures in Varadero and a reminder that the peninsula was once a modest fishing village before being transformed by American money and then Cuban tourism. The furniture and objects inside give a sense of what upper-class Cuban beach life looked like before the Revolution.

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