Caguas Museum of Tobacco

In downtown Caguas, the Herminio Torres Grillo Museum of Tobacco preserves the history of tobacco cultivation and manufacture in Puerto Rico and the wider Caribbean. Set in a former blacksmith shop in Caguas Pueblo, this colonial neoclassical building houses relics of an industry that remained central to Puerto Rico’s economy until the 1960s. Its location is especially fitting because Caguas was one of the island’s main tobacco-growing regions. The museum also includes replicas of a tobacco ranchón used to cure and dry leaves, and it sustains the craft through skilled cigar makers who create and sell their work on site.

Caguas, Puerto Rico · United States