Sancti SpíritusSights

Museum sights in Sancti Spíritus

  1. Fundación de la Naturaleza y EI Hombre

    Replicating its equally diminutive namesake in Miramar, Havana, the Fundación de la Naturaleza y El Hombre on Parque Maceo chronicles the 17,422km canoe odyssey ‘from the Amazon to the Caribbean’ in 1987 led by Cuban writer and Renaissance man Antonio Nuñez Jiménez (1923–98). Some 432 explorers made the journey through 10 countries, from Ecuador to the Bahamas, in the twin dugout canoes Simón Bolívar and Hatuey. The latter measures over 13m and is the collection’s central, prized piece.

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  2. Museo Provincial

    Sport and coins make improbable bedfellows in the obligatory Museo Provincial on Parque Serafín Sánchez, which might appeal to numismatically minded baseball fanatics, but few others.

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  3. Museo de Ciencias Naturales

    The Museo de Ciencias Naturales, off Parque Serafín Sánchez, has a stuffed crocodile that will scare your three-year-old and some shiny rock collections.

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