The Napoleon Museum in Havana, Cuba houses one of the most important[clarification needed] collections from the 18th and 19th centuries preserved in the Western hemisphere.

The museum was founded in 1961, with the collection of Julio Lobo, occupying a 1929 Florentine Renaissance style mansion "La Dolce Dimora", the home of an Italian-Cuban politician, Orestes Ferrara.

The collection includes a specialized library, suits, weapons, military equipment, furniture, coins, historic and decorative objects.

Artwork is displayed from Louis Tocqué, Jean-Marc Nattier, Nicolas de Largillière, Jean Baptiste Regnault; François Flameng, Andrea Appiani and Robert Léfèvre.

This exhaustively researched book includes historical information about the origins of the collection, the museum, as well as details about the important Napoleonic artifacts in the inventory.