Cuban Academy of Sciences

The Cuban Academy of Sciences (Academia de Ciencias de Cuba) is an official institution of the Cuban state,[1] with headquarters in the National Capitol building in Havana.

Its original headquarters now houses the Carlos J. Finlay Historical Museum of Sciences.

In 1980 the Academy acquired the rank of a Ministry, encompassing all of the country's scientific and technological activity.

In April 1996 it was established in its present form with a mission as follows: "to foster Cuban science, to disseminate national and universal scientific progress, to recognize the scientific research of excellence in the country, to raise ethic professional standards and social recognition of science, and to strengthen links between scientists and their organizations, both among themselves, with society at large, and with the rest of the world."

Over the last few decades, the Cuban Academy has worked with the U.S. Smithsonian Institution on scientific exchanges despite frayed political relations between the two nations.