Museo Hacienda Buena Vista is a historic coffee plantation farm museum in Barrio Magueyes, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

The structures and land are now owned by the Fideicomiso de Conservación (Puerto Rico Conservation Trust), who operates the museum.

It is located on 81.79 acres (331,000 m2) of fertile land that includes a humid subtropical forest some 7 miles (11 km) north of Ponce on Route PR-123,[7] in Corral Viejo, a community in Barrio Magueyes.

The machinery of the original Hacienda has been put in motion again, farm animals roam the grounds, the farmhouse rooms have been furnished, and the scent of freshly roasted coffee fills the surrounding air.

[10] De Vives set up the farm to sell its produce in the Ponce market and in the sugarcane estates along the southern coast.

Later, Don Salvador's grandson oversaw the addition of coffee growing and processing to the plantains and cornmeal, taking advantage of the great coffee-growing boom of the 1880s and 1890s.

Don Salvador's son as well as his grandson introduced some of the most innovative farm machinery on the island, powered by a nearby 100-foot (30 m) waterfall.

[12] By 1937 agriculture had seriously declined in Puerto Rico, and the plantation business was abandoned, becoming mostly a weekend country house for the Vives heirs.

These remaining 87 acres of lands were acquired by the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico in 1984, with the intention of restoring the hacienda.

Despite the grave deterioration of the coffee-processing machinery and the farm buildings, the Conservation Trust managed to restore the estate so that it could be used to educate the public about the golden era of fine coffee growing in the mountains of Puerto Rico.

This is important because in the latter part of the nineteenth century the coffee produced in Puerto Rico and exported to Europe and the United States was considered among the finest in the world.

Located at an altitude of between 160 and 460 meters above sea level, the air is crispy cool at night and moist-to-humid during the day.

[20] The manor house is a 2-story 60x50ft building built in 1845, the main indoors attraction of the museum and the reference point for all other structures.

The eastern half of the manor house is made of brick and includes a courtyard, the kitchen, two more bedrooms and a bathroom.

Its walls, floor and ceiling were made to withstand or dissipate the destructive tropical storms that are common in this region.

[20] The coffee de-pulping and husking mill is a 2-story wooden building located to the northwest of the museum's manor house.