museo del carnaval

A few rooms with costumes, photos and drums of the carnaval. Dance show every afternoon - but don't expect professionalism.

lovely museo i mean all of them are amazingwhy do i have to type so much it's a building with interesting things and if you have a tour guide (see melia hotel for johnny the student across the street at that restaurant :) well tell him MJ sent ya and he'll take you everywhere! :) cuban cigars nearby woot*

I enjoyed visiting the Museo del Carnaval which houses Carnaval costumes of past years, introducing you to the history of Carnaval in Santiago de Cuba and how the costumes and musical instruments were made. It is also one of the places you could watch live folklore dance performances on certain days of the week.

this ''museum'' has only a few masks of carnivals, the rest is pictures of little interest. The place is not well kept.

The museum of costumes worn at the carnivals, was small but in the courtyard at the back about twenty musicians and dancers gave an amazing display of colour and rhythm to the 5 or so watching tourists.

This has a dance show at 4pm, included in your 1 CUC admission (but they deserve a propina at the end!). Dancing was great, I liked it here and it was good to sit down in a nice courtyard and there was a lovely atmosphere. Go there, but only in the afternoon if you want to see the best stuff!

The museum is very basic with a very small display.But.... you need to come in the afternoon when young people show their carnaval dances, we loved it.

Very nice museum and I received a great personalized tour (in Spanish) covering decades of the Santiago Carnival. I found particularly interesting the fact that during the crisis years in the 1990s they use a paperpunch to create the ornaments for the dresses and hats...

Just a few rooms of photos of recent carnivals and a few faded dresses and masks

The exhibits, the imagination an the creators of dresses, the colors and the sense of carnival in the air.

Don't have English guide, but the guides were able to communicate through sign languages. Just go and look at the clothing worn for the carnaval.

Santiago de Cuba has the island nation's most important carnival traditions and this museum,located only 5 minutes from the main city square, is a great opportunity to explore the origins of carnival and the way in which it has evolved over time. Lots of good social, economic and cultural history- and if you want feathers, vibrant colours, mask, exotic bests et al- there's lots of it here. As often happens in Cuba, though, you really need at least decent basic Spanish to be able to fully enjoy this place. A little further down the same street is the Casa de la Trova of Santiago, a great place to hear Cuban music and, if there is room and you've had enough to drink, dance the night away.

We really liked seeing the costumes and instruments used in the parades, as well as seeing some historical documents. The museum was also easy to find as it is just up the street from Casa de la Trova.

The exhibits in this museum do really not worth a visit. However, the African dance show that takes place every day at 4 pm (or 4:30, needs to be checked) is quite interesting. Santiago de Cuba where the highest African Cuban population resides, has a lot of African motives around and this show, tough not a very professional one, is one of them. The dance show is performed in the courtyard of the museum. It's colorful, it's vivid, it's too loud (drums can really cause a headache after a certain while) but in the end it's fun as spectators are also invited to the dance. Don't expect anything too sophisticated nor too professional but don't miss this cute show either...

Très déçus, par les choses à voir dans le musée, le musée es très petit... Je vous conseil un autre musée. Pas cher mais pas grand choses... :(