Museo de Historia Municipal

The neoclassical architecture of the Municipal History Museum is an impressive sight among the other important buildings around Trinidad’s Plaza Mayor. For understanding the riches amassed during the prior owner’s prominent position, as a sugar baron, step inside the museum to examine. Using forced slave labor, colonialists built one of the world’s largest areas of sugar production in the Valle de Los Ingenios just east of Trinidad. Trinidad and the sugar-producing valley are part of a UNESCO heritage site. The museum includes maps and documents related to the long era of sugar production, with some reference to the slave trade upon which its success depended.