Museo de Artes Decorativas

This guide to the Museo de Artes Decorativas in Havana centers on Maria Luisa Gomez Mena, Countess of Revilla de Camargo, who built this French-style Vedado mansion in the 1920s and once hosted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. It follows her through the 1959 revolution, when she believed her world would hold, and then fled the island rather than lose it. Listen for what workers found behind a plastered basement wall the day this mansion reopened as a museum.