New 1930s-style Lounge Opens in Havana´s Rum Museum

Havana´s Rum Museum has opened the Havana Club Lounge with a view to recreate Cuban music and the bohemian part of town back in the 1930s.

Featuring a glazed wooden bar and a fancy three-tier cupboard (also made of wood) showcasing all Havana Club´s rums and liquors, the lounge provides an intimate atmosphere and gives patrons the possibility of sipping at the cocktails that used to be mixed at the time, some of them inspired from boldface names of Cuban culture, like Amochoc.

This particular cocktail pays tribute to Amadito Valdes, the timbales drummer of Buena Vista Social Club, and to Cuban painter Eduardo Roca "Choco." Both personalities were among the invitees to the grand opening night that also counted on the attendance of major figures of Cuban arts and music, including two-time Grammy Award winner Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban painter Manuel Mendive, singer Beatriz Marques, plus several actors and anchormen.

The Havana Club Lounge will also serves as a perfect setting for the performance of musical acts, the promotion of their tunes and for makeshift jam sessions with the intention of bringing back memories of the 1930s bohemian Havana.

Also known as the Rum Foundation, this establishment that celebrated its fourth anniversary last month ranks among Pernod Ricard´s top museums around the world. The French company has built a bar and a restaurant on the premises, together with an art gallery, a store, a colonial patio and the museum that recreates the history of sugarcane and the rum-making industry on the island nation.