Museo del Ron

The Fundación Destilería Havana Club has a museum offering displays of the production of rum from the sugar cane plantation to the processing and bottling, with machinery dating from the early 20th century. The museum is well laid out but too dark and atmospheric to read the notices. There is a wonderful model railway which runs round a model sugar mill and distillery, designed and made by prize-winning Lázaro Eduardo García Driggs in 1993-1994 and restored in 1999-2000. At the end of the tour you get a tasting of a six-year old Havana Club rum in a bar that is a mock up of the once-famous Sloppy Joe’s. There is also a restaurant (excellent shrimp kebab) and bar, a shop and an art gallery where present-day Cuban artists exhibit their work.