The Centro Cultural Casa del Che is located on the hill La Cabaña overlooking the city. The entire building is painted in white, so that it can be easily distinguished from far away. The signature of Che Guevara in big format is adorning the façade of the two-floors building. On the outer wall you will see the plaque that was nailed in 1970, when the house was opened as House Museum, and two photos, witnessing the unveiling of the plaque.

A big colored portrait of Che welcomes you at the entrance and a huge bust of Che greets you at the doorway. On the wall of the entrance hall you will see an inscription with a sentence of Che: Desde ahora no consideraría mi muerte una frustración, apenas, como Hikmet: sólo llevaré a la tumba la pesadumbre de un canto inconcluso. (From now on, I would not consider my death a frustration, just like Hikmet: I will only bring to the grave the sorrow of an unfinished song). Here, Che refers to a poem written by the Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet in the Prison of Bursa, Turkey in 1933, when he was on trial that might lead to his execution. The poem has the title ‘Letter to My Wife’.

The walls are covered with several unpublished photos of Che Guevara with Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos, Olo Pantoja, Pablo Rivalta Pérez, Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Harry Villegas Tamayo, some soldiers of column 8 Ciro Redondo including Juan Alberto Castellanos, Aleida Match, and a group of children of the children’s theatre Los Barbuditos. The photos that show Che reading a book, are rather impressive.

The bedroom gives some hints about the gusto of Che Guevara. On the commode with mirror you will see a box of Montecristo, Che’s favorite cigar, and the thermos, the calabash gourd and the bombilla that Che used to drink his favorite drink El Mate. Mate is a caffeine-rich infused drink of Paraguay origin, also known as cimarrón. It is prepared by steeping dried leaves of yerba mate in hot water and is served with a metal straw from a shared hollow calabash gourd. The straw is called bombilla in Spanish. The straw is traditionally made of silver. The gourd is known as a mate or a guampa. Even if the water is supplied from a modern thermos, the infusion is traditionally drunk from mates.

The chess room with exposed boards seems to wait for the chess players. A photo of Che taken with the Russian chess grandmasters Vasily Smyslov and Mark Evgenievich Taimanov during the chess tournament, held in memoriam of Ajedrez Capablanca in 1964, can be seen on the wall. Ajedrez Capablanca (1888-1942) was the Cuban chess champion that was also world champion during 1921-1927. He was nicknamed Mozart of the Chess.

The protocol room is well equipped. It is used for conferences, commemorative events and video projections in a cozy atmosphere.

One of the striking parts of the house is the exhibition room, El Mate. The objects of the guerillas that they used in Bolivia in 1960s, such as the typewriter of Coco Peredo that was used for the revolutionary propaganda, the camera, the radio, the porcelain plate, the metal flask, the machine used to grind the flour to make pasta, the hunting trap, the leather briefcase used to store the funds of the guerillas, the boots of Guido Álvaro Peredo Leigue, the bombilla to drink the infusion of mate and the leather pouch of Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider, the cinch to ride a horse during the fight and the Mamiya 16 automatic  subminiature  camera, are exhibited in this room.