
Curious About Cuba - The Great Museums of Havana
Havana's museums hold the physical record of Cuba's mixed European, African, and indigenous heritage, and this film walks through two of the biggest: the National Museum of Fine Arts, with its galleries of Cuban painting and sculpture, and the Museum of the Revolution, housed in the former presidential palace and stacked with artifacts from Castro's uprising. Art historians, curators, and working artists appear on camera to talk through specific pieces and collections, explaining what they reveal about Cuban identity across centuries of colonization, slavery, and revolution. The film also moves outside the galleries into Havana's streets, showing the city's architecture and art scene as a kind of open-air extension of the museum collections. It touches on the decades-long US embargo and its effect on daily life, though the focus stays on culture rather than policy. Produced by Great Museums TV for public television, the film works as a compact introduction to Cuban art and history rather than a deep account of any single period or artist.