It is the institution responsible for storing, restoring, preserving, promoting and researching the works that are part of Cuba's plastic heritage. It has the most important collection of Cuban art, which stretches from the 16th century to the present day. It includes 19th century colonial engravings, works produced between 1898 and 1920 (academic painting), the artistic avant-gardes of the first half of the twentieth century and the series by the great Cuban masters such as Fidelio Ponce, Victor Manuel, Carlos Enríquez and Wifredo L.

The exhibition spaces, renovated architecturally and museum graphically, and equipped with modern systems of lighting, air conditioning, environmental control and integral security, are organized in eight main thematic areas, which include 24 rooms or spaces designed to be visited sequentially or from Alternatives of free choice.

The collections encompassed under the name of Universal Art are housed in another building, former headquarters of the Asturian Center, near the Central Park of Havana, and include thematic sets of works from all areas or important areas of Western art, which determines that The National Museum surpasses other similar institutions of Latin America. Among these collections stand out the one of Spanish art, with the most important painters of century XIX (Sorolla, Lucas Velázquez, Mariano Fortuny, Raimundo de Madrazo and Zuloaga); That of English portraits of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; And the collection of ancient classical art, with a rich set of sculptural and ceramic pieces from Egypt, Greece and Rome.

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