The Napoleon Museum in

Havana, Cuba Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.

houses one of the most important collections from the 18th and 19th centuries preserved in the Western hemisphere. The museum is on San Miguel Street, between Ronda and Mazón, on one side of the University of Havana. The museum was founded in 1961, with the collection of Julio Lobo, occupying a 1929 Florentine Renaissance style mansion "La Dolce Dimora", the home of an Italian-Cuban politician, Orestes Ferrara. The architects were Evelio Govantes and Félix Cabarrocas, whose also designed El Capitolio and the Casa de la Amistad on Paseo. The museum reopened in March 2011 after a three-year restoration by the City Historian’s Office."Cuba reopens Napoleonic Museum: Considered one of the five most important of its kind in the world", ''Granma'', April 7, 2011
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, widow of Luis Marie Bonaparte, a descendant of Bonaparte’s younger brother

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, was especially invited to the island for the reopening. The museum displays almost 8,000 items, most of them related to the period from the French Revolution through the Second Empire. The collection includes a specialized library, suits, weapons, military equipment, furniture, coins, historic and decorative objects. Artwork is displayed from Louis Tocqué, Jean-Marc Nattier, Nicolas de Largillière, Jean Baptiste Regnault;

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, Andrea Appiani and Robert Léfèvre. The museum displays Napoleon’s death mask, brought by Dr.

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, the last doctor to treat Napoleon on

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, who died in Santiago de Cuba; and Napoleon's telescope. ''The Collection of the Museo Napoleonico Havana, Cuba'' was published in 2021 by Luke Dalla Bona. It is the result of almost 10 years of research and investigations with authorization from the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana. This exhaustively researched book includes historical information about the origins of the collection, the museum, as well as details about the important Napoleonic artifacts in the inventory.

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