Museo Hacienda Buena Vista

This article is about the farm Museum at the historic Hacienda. For the article on the historic Hacienda itself, see Hacienda Buena Vista.

Museo Hacienda Buena Vista
Partial view of Museo Hacienda Buena Vista complex
Museo Hacienda Buena Vista is located in Puerto Rico
Museo Hacienda Buena Vista
Museo Hacienda Buena Vista
Location within Puerto Rico
Established1987
LocationPonce, Puerto Rico
Coordinates18°5′4″N 66°39′16″W / 18.08444°N 66.65444°W / 18.08444; -66.65444
TypeFarm museum
Visitors40,000/year
CuratorFideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico
OwnerPrivate:[1]
Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico.[2]
Websitehttp://www.fideicomiso.org/

Museo Hacienda Buena Vista is a historic coffee plantation farm museum in Barrio Magueyes, Ponce, Puerto Rico. The museum opened in 1987, and receives some 40,000 visitors a year.[3][4] The museum has been described as "Puerto Rico's first living museum of art and science."[5][6]

The original plantation belonged to the Vives family and dates from the 19th century. The structures and land are now owned by the Fideicomiso de Conservación (Puerto Rico Conservation Trust), who operates the museum. It is located on 81.79 acres (331,000 m2) of fertile land that includes a humid subtropical forest some 7 miles (11 km) north of Ponce on Route PR-123,[7] in Corral Viejo, a community in Barrio Magueyes.[7]

Museo Hacienda Buena Vista is today a well-known educational destination. The machinery of the original Hacienda has been put in motion again, farm animals roam the grounds, the farmhouse rooms have been furnished, and the scent of freshly roasted coffee fills the surrounding air.[8] Visitors can take tours through the old Vives country home and explore the plantation buildings and grounds. Authentic 19th-century farm machinery is exhibited that shows how a coffee plantation worked in the 1880s.

  1. ^ Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico: About Us. Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico. 2016. Accessed 30 May 2016.
  2. ^ Hacienda Buena Vista. Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico. 2016. Accessed 30 May 2016.
  3. ^ Con taller de catación: Salda prolífico año Hacienda Buena Vista. Gary Gutiérrez. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. Week of 3–10 November 2010. Obsolete link updated 24 January 2019.
  4. ^ Una hacienda atada a la historia citadina. Sandra Torres Guzmán. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. Year 31. Issue 1548. Page 22. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  5. ^ Buena Vista: Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904, By Guillermo Baralt, Translated by Andrew Hurley. Planeta.com The University of North Carolina Press. Accessed 17 February 2019.
  6. ^ Guillermo A. Baralt. Buena Vista: Life and work in a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904. Translated from Spanish by Andrew Hurley. (Originally published in 1988 by Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico, with the title La Buena Vista: Estancia de Frutos Menores, fábrica de harinas y hacienda cafetalera.) 1999. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, EE.UU.: University of North Carolina Press. p. xiii. ISBN 0807848018
  7. ^ a b "Gente." La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. Gente section. Story 3. 2 September 2009.
  8. ^ Hacienda Buena Vista Plantation Details, P.R. Tourism Company Archived 21 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine