The building that served as residence to the Count of Casa Bayona is currently the headquarters of the Museum of Colonial Art and is located in front of the Cathedral of Havana.
This building has a medieval air of the tropics in its exterior. It was commanded to be built by Governor Don Luís de Chacón in 1720.
It was headquartered in the nineteenth century of the College of Notaries, later of the newspaper La Discusión, and from the thirties of the twentieth century, there were installed offices of a rum company. At present, it serves as the headquarters for an important museum that exhibits furniture of the different styles that monopolized the preferences of the wealthy families of the city. These furniture are arranged in a real way in the different pieces of the house, such as the dining room and the bedroom, among others.
The museum is traversed through the high and low galleries, as always around the open air of the inner courtyard. One of its most interesting rooms is dedicated to the traditional Havana windows as well as to callers, knobs and traditional elements of colonial architecture and decoration.