Raquel Martori. Havana .- Cuba Napoleonic Museum, which houses one of the world's largest collections devoted to the French emperor and his era, has reopened its doors in Havana's hand Foresta Alix, Princess Napoleon. The museum's reopening comes after a rigorous three-year restoration of the houses almost 8,000 pieces, which is given a weight millionaire, and the property which exhibits an impressive eclectic style mansion located in the Havana neighborhood of El Vedado.
Napoleon Princess, widow of Louis Marie Bonaparte, Prince Napoleon, a descendant of King Jerome Bonaparte's younger brother, attended Tuesday's reopening of the museum that he donated several pieces of crockery to give "testimony to the esteem "family by it and" his friendship with Cuba, so proud of its history.
" Alix de Foresta, recalling the origin of part of the collection referred to the "passionate love" of the late Julio Lobo Olavarria Venezuelan millionaire tycoon of the sugar industry on the island, who was a great admirer of Napoleon and he went to United States after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
Opened in 1961, the museum has four floors in a dazzling array of unique items, including original death mask of Napoleon I, a telescope and a jacket. Cuban historian Eusebio Leal said in the act of reopening the mask came to the island in the hands of medical personnel attended to the emperor until his death in Santa Elena, in 1821, Dr.
Francesco Antommarchi, who took up residence in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba. Leal also revealed that the doctor was carrying the gold watch that accompanied the last hours of Napoleon, a piece that was received in 1959 as a wedding gift by the current President of Cuba, Raul Castro, who handed it to deposit funds museum.
Leal highlighted the work carried out by museum curators, conservators and restorers, as well as director of the institution, Gema Perez, to restore its splendor. "The national heritage is the invisible spirit of Cuba and any country", noted historian. He also recalled that the mansion, built in 1928 in imitation of a Florentine palace, was christened "La Dolce Dimora" by its former owner, the Cuban-Italian political Orestes Ferrara.
Vice President Jose Ramon Fernandez, Minister of Culture Abel Prieto, and Higher Education, Miguel Diaz-Canel, along with the French ambassador in Havana, Jean Mendelson, and a large group of artists, intellectuals and diplomats flocked to the renovated center . The exhibit is the restored military uniforms, weapons, porcelain, rugs, lamps, books, marbles, bronzes and other objects, some never before exhibited.
The library, with nearly a hundred square meters of wood, which was necessary to deal adequately with the coatings, was one of the biggest challenges in the restoration of the museum. In the spacious halls of the center are decorated with large paintings, prints and sculptures inspired by Napoleon I and his career from its beginning as a recruit to his failed campaign in Russia.
Also sets the stage representative pieces fall from the French Revolution to the Second Empire. Among them are the tricolor sash of the French Republic, red, blue and white, bronze swords with handles, weapons used in the taking of the Bastille, cocked hats and bundles. In one of its rooms features a large oil painting of Bonaparte which seems to be looking the visitor with its characteristic pose: hand between his jacket and belly, and another that is surrounded by his entourage while preparing for the ceremony of own coronation. 
Napoleon Princess, widow of Louis Marie Bonaparte, Prince Napoleon, a descendant of King Jerome Bonaparte's younger brother, attended Tuesday's reopening of the museum that he donated several pieces of crockery to give "testimony to the esteem "family by it and" his friendship with Cuba, so proud of its history.
" Alix de Foresta, recalling the origin of part of the collection referred to the "passionate love" of the late Julio Lobo Olavarria Venezuelan millionaire tycoon of the sugar industry on the island, who was a great admirer of Napoleon and he went to United States after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
Opened in 1961, the museum has four floors in a dazzling array of unique items, including original death mask of Napoleon I, a telescope and a jacket. Cuban historian Eusebio Leal said in the act of reopening the mask came to the island in the hands of medical personnel attended to the emperor until his death in Santa Elena, in 1821, Dr.
Francesco Antommarchi, who took up residence in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba. Leal also revealed that the doctor was carrying the gold watch that accompanied the last hours of Napoleon, a piece that was received in 1959 as a wedding gift by the current President of Cuba, Raul Castro, who handed it to deposit funds museum.
Leal highlighted the work carried out by museum curators, conservators and restorers, as well as director of the institution, Gema Perez, to restore its splendor. "The national heritage is the invisible spirit of Cuba and any country", noted historian. He also recalled that the mansion, built in 1928 in imitation of a Florentine palace, was christened "La Dolce Dimora" by its former owner, the Cuban-Italian political Orestes Ferrara.
Vice President Jose Ramon Fernandez, Minister of Culture Abel Prieto, and Higher Education, Miguel Diaz-Canel, along with the French ambassador in Havana, Jean Mendelson, and a large group of artists, intellectuals and diplomats flocked to the renovated center . The exhibit is the restored military uniforms, weapons, porcelain, rugs, lamps, books, marbles, bronzes and other objects, some never before exhibited.
The library, with nearly a hundred square meters of wood, which was necessary to deal adequately with the coatings, was one of the biggest challenges in the restoration of the museum. In the spacious halls of the center are decorated with large paintings, prints and sculptures inspired by Napoleon I and his career from its beginning as a recruit to his failed campaign in Russia.
Also sets the stage representative pieces fall from the French Revolution to the Second Empire. Among them are the tricolor sash of the French Republic, red, blue and white, bronze swords with handles, weapons used in the taking of the Bastille, cocked hats and bundles. In one of its rooms features a large oil painting of Bonaparte which seems to be looking the visitor with its characteristic pose: hand between his jacket and belly, and another that is surrounded by his entourage while preparing for the ceremony of own coronation.
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