It was established in 1899 by its founder and famous rum distiller Emilio Bacardi Moreau, in Santiago de Cuba.

[2] Emilio Bacardí and his wife, Elvira Cape, embarked on a significant journey overseas in 1912.

Their trip yielded an impressive collection of antiquities and art, as well as Cuba's first genuine mummy and sarcophagus from Egypt.

Additional exhibits in the museum included three death masks of Napoleon, a significant collection of artifacts from Cuba's wars of independence, art pieces deaccessioned from the Museo del Prado, and important works representing the French modernist era.

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