Preservation Ordered

MUSEUMS JOURNAL, May 2005 By PATRICK STEEL An archive of unpublished writings fill Ernest Hemingway’s decaying old house, now a museum, in Havana. No wonder that the building’s survival is a priority, says Patrick Steel It is every curator’s...

The Finca Vigía Preservation Project

By JENNY PHILLIPS Presented May 2005 in Havana, Cuba My introduction to Finca Vigía came in early 2001 when I arrived in Cuba with friends. We had come to listen to music and explore Havana and the Cuban countryside. But we found something quite different. A quick...

No Clean, Well-lighted Place

Preservation, Jan-Feb 2005 The beloved Cuban Residence of Ernest Hemingway—Finca Vigía or Lookout Farm—sits on a hilltop overlooking the Carribbean Sea, about 12 miles east of Havana. Since Hemingway’s death in 1961, the deterioration of the house has been...