Museo Romantico (Palacio Brunet)
Colonial mansion on Trinidad's Plaza Mayor displaying nineteenth-century decorative arts in fourteen rooms.
The Palacio Brunet was completed in 1808 for the Borrell family and later passed by marriage to the Brunet family, among the wealthiest sugar planters of Trinidad. It stands on the north side of the Plaza Mayor beside the church of the Holy Trinity, and is a characteristic Cuban colonial town house: an arcaded courtyard, wrought-iron grilles, tall shuttered doors and a broad marble staircase, with painted friezes and cedar ceilings in the principal rooms upstairs.
The house became the Museo Romantico on 26 May 1974. Fourteen rooms are furnished to show the domestic life of the planter class in the first half of the nineteenth century, with Cuban and imported furniture in cedar and mahogany, porcelain, glass, silver, linen and family portraits. Cabinet-making is a particular strength of the collection. The building forms part of the Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios World Heritage Site, inscribed by UNESCO in 1988.
Highlights
- Fourteen furnished rooms showing planter-class domestic life
- Cuban cedar and mahogany cabinet-making, porcelain, silver and glass
- Arcaded courtyard and painted friezes of the 1808 mansion
- On the Plaza Mayor within the UNESCO-listed centre of Trinidad
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