1888. Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez was born in the Jesús María neighborhood in Havana.

From the stage of his childhood he was influenced by various African rituals.

He was also in contact with the rumba, he even achieved great fame as a natural rumbero.

In 1906 he was part of the first group of keys and guaguancó called El Timbre de Oro in which he began as a decimist. With this group he began his triumphant artistic career.

In 1926, together with María Teresa Vera, he founded the Sexteto Occidente and they were contracted by Columbia Records to record discs in New York.

The following year, upon returning to Cuba, he organized the National Sextet, one of the most renowned musical groups of the Cuban musical staff, where he was able to express the full richness of the son.

The structural modifications, the cadence, the rhythm and the use of refined melodies and lyrics, achieved by him, made possible the popularity achieved by the Septeto Nacional.

His death occurred in Havana on March 12, 1969.

1987. In the Párraga neighborhood in Havana, the Hurón Azul Museum opens to the public.

It is located in what was the home and workshop of the Cuban painter and novelist Carlos Antonio Esteban Enríquez Galope Gómez, known from an artistic point of view as Carlos Enríquez.

The name of this museum is due to a ferret that the artist nailed on the entrance door of his house. This was stained with methylene blue to harmonize with the color of the doors and windows.

The rodent had been a gift from an artist friend of his.

Currently in the Hurón Azul Museum there are personal objects and works by Carlos Enríquez. It impresses by its dimensions in the wall that surrounds the fireplace and the mural of the bathers, with a strong touch of sensuality and eroticism.

Equally worthy of distinction in the Museum are the phantasmagorical steps marked on the stairs, which give a mystical air to the atmosphere that surrounded the artist in this oasis.

Carlos Enríquez carried out many of his works on this farm. Some of them won national and international awards.

One of the most important works of Cuban painting is the Rapture of the Mulatto Women, conceived by this artist in 1938.

In this house, which was granted National Monument status, Carlos Enríquez lived the last 18 years of his life, from 1939 until his death on May 2, 1957.