The museum occupies the former Ferlita Bakery (originally La Joven Francesca) building at 1818 9th Avenue in the Ybor City Historic District.

The bakery was known for producing cuban bread and its ovens are part of the museum displays covering the history of the cigar industry and the Latin community from the 1880s through the 1930s.

Exhibits, period photos and a video cover the founding of Ybor City and the cigar making industry.

[2] Established in 1896 by the Sicilian-born Francisco Ferlita, of Cuban-Spanish-Italian descent, bread sold for 3 to 5 cents a loaf, mainly to the Ybor City market.

Houses had a sturdy nail driven into the doorframe next to the door on which deliveryman would impale the fresh loaf of bread.