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Museo de la Imagen Bernabé Muñiz Guibernau is located in Calle 8 between the streets 3 and 5, #106 in Reparto Vista Alegre.

Opening Hours

Tuesday -Sunday  09:00-17:00

Admission Details
1 CUP; 5 CUC photo
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Museum of the Image presents a brief history of all kinds of imaging equipment, such as used in photographing, television, and cinema. It is unique of its kind in Cuba.

The film cameraman Bernabé Muñiz Guibernau who was collecting the equipment used in photographing, and cinema, as well as in broadcasting of radio and television in his house in Aguilera street since 1973, transferred all of his collection to this museum, when it was inaugurated officially in 1992.

The building is divided into four permanent exhibition rooms, a protocol room, and a cinema & video room. In the photography room about 250 pieces are exhibited, such as photo cameras (antique Leicas, Polaroids etc.), flashes, a stereoscope from 1872, lenses, photometers, and spy cameras. Among the exponents, the Kodak camera collection, from the first made by the French to the current ones, is the most outstanding one. 

In the cinema room about 150 pieces are exhibited, such as movie cameras, projectors, film editors and film splicers. A moviola that belongs to the documentalist Santiago Álvarez, and the collection of Bell and Howell cameras of 35 mm and 16 mm that were used in many films, such as Fall of Machado, Expedition of Cayo Confites, Triumph of the Revolution, Playa Girón, October Crisis, are worth to see.

In the television room, among the most important ones are those that belong to the collection of TV cameras from the beginning of the television broadcasting in Havana and then in Santiago de Cuba, such as the RCA camera of 1941 and the Russian KT-87 camera.

In the radio room equipment used in telegraphy and phone call and a collection of carbon microphones are exhibited. A radio from 1920 and a victrola from 1904 stand out.

The museum has a cinema and video room with a capacity for 56 persons. More than 300 historical movies in 16 mm format, such as “Viva la República and Hundred Years of Struggle”, and “Why Moncada?”, are preserved in a film vault.

The vibrant red 1940 model broadcasting car in the front garden is visible even from far away.