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Museums in the Philippines

Welcome to a whole house of a museum.

The museum recreates the lifestyle during the colonial period through antique furniture, paintings, lighting fixtures and other objects of decorative art.

will keep you busy for hours. If you like delving into the past then you have to put the San Agustin Museum Manila on your itinerary!

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One of the main attractions in Intramuros showcasing the history of the Philippines and the Filipino's journey to freedom. With more than a hundred mannequins depicting pre-Spanish colonization until Rizal's legacy in becoming a national hero occupying two levels of the building.

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Museo Sugbo is housed at what was once called Cárcel de Cebú, the provincial jail of Cebu

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Basilica del Sto. Niño, Osmena Blvd., Cebu City
Basement, Pilgrim's Center, Cebu City

It houses the Santo Niño vestments in various sizes. Valuable jewelry from rings to necklaces are placed in one display cabinet, gifts of devotees offered to the Santo Niño for his use during his feast on the third Sunday of January

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Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Central Bank of the Philippines

Barasoain Church Historical Landmark Museum

Malolos, Bulacan, Central Luzon - Open Hours: 8:00am - 12:00nn, 1:00pm - 5:00pm (Monday to Friday)

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Artifacts displayed at the museum.

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The JRG Halad Museum, founded by Dodong Gullas in 2010, explores and celebrates the enduring legacies of Cebuano cultural heritage as expressed through music.

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Bacolod City

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The Santo Niño Shrine, one of the 29 presidential rest houses that the late Pres. Ferdinand Marcos had built.

Santo Niño, a representation of the infant Jesus Christ, is the patron Saint of Leyte.
It is located in Real Street, Tacloban City. Paintings of the 14 stations of the Cross done by Filipino artists, wooden bas-relief of the legend of the First Filipino man-woman (Si Malakas at si Maganda); tastefully decorated guestrooms of varied Filipino motifs; image of the Holy Child; a collection of original paintings by Fernando Amorsolo; spacious ballroom

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The National Museum of the Philippines declared the Las Pinas Bamboo Organ as The National Cultural Treasure being the finest and the only one in the 19th century that is still working in the Philippines

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The concept of the Music Museum is that of an active and living one where the musical instruments are not mere displays but are made to come alive through live performances and audio-video presentations.

The Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino is an integrated humanities museum established in 1988

The Mangyan Heritage Center (MHC) is a library, archive, and research & education center located in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines. The MHC promotes awareness of the indigenous peoples of the island of Mindoro.

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The Museum’s primary goal is to foster a greater public appreciation of the finest in Filipino and Filipino-Chinese visual arts and creativity

An intimate tour of one of the museums in the heart of Makati

KAISA-ANGELO KING HERITAGE CENTER #32 Anda cor. Cabildo Streets, Intramuros, 1002 Manila

a Museum of the Chinese in Philippine Life

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The Museum's mandate to serve the community and the nation is captured by the phrase re-collecting the past, re-presenting the future. The museum maintains it has a twofold identity as both historical and art museum.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Manila looks forward to a Filipino nation that takes pride in the variety and excellence of its arts and culture. The premier museum of modern and contemporary visual arts in the Philippines

Art for All

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Culion was called the Island of the Living Dead or the Island of No Return.

If only for the visit to the museum at the Culion Sanitarium, the trip is worth it since it ably tells the story of Culion and makes you appreciate life as it is today.

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So many things and informations about "Peoples of the Philippines" - "Crafts" and with links in a "Alphabetical Listing of Cultural Groups" for reading about all the single groups, just look around - start click the red "C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology" on the mainpage.

is a City Government of Davao facility and is being run in collaboration with the private sector.

Museo Dabawenyo or the “Museum of the people of Davao” is one of the two known museums in Davao. Although it is directly translated as “Davao Museum”, it is commonly known as the NEW Museum

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Lake Sebu, South Cotabato

The museum showcases the culture of the T'boli people.

Established in the 16th century, Vigan is the best-preserved example of a planned Spanish colonial town in Asia. Its architecture reflects the comming together of cultural elements from elsewhere in the Philippines, from China and from Europe, resulting in a culture and townscape that have no parallel anywhere in East and South-East Asia.
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earlier known as " Ciudad Fernandina" from 1758 to late 19th century, is the oldest surviving Spanish colonial city in the country

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At the far end of the main plaza in Vigan

The Burgos House was renovated by the Filipinas Foundation, Inc. and inaugurated as the Ayala Museum in Vigan. In setting up this museum, the Foundation hoped to arouse, if not reaffirm, the Ilocano pride in its glorious past.

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Philippine customs and traditions are re-born in a community typical of the 18^th and 19^th century Philippines.  Historical Principalia (noble class) mansions, House of Stone (Bahay na Bato) and Indio Stilt houses now stand in a village reminiscent of old Hispanic settlements.  These buildings have been carefully and painstakingly reconstructed from different parts of the country and rebuilt, “brick by brick”, “plank by plank” with modern facilities added for comfort and function set within cobblestone paseos  and plaza. 

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Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines

Riceworld is a permanent exhibition about rice art, culture and science. It is the only museum in the world solely dedicated to rice and rice farmers all over the world acting as an eye-opener on the value of rice. Exhibits include rice related artefacts, information on IPM, Rice Genebank, IRRI rice research, rice farming, rice ecosystems, rice products, biotechnology and rice farmers.

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is the oldest and largest international agricultural research institute in Asia.

The Central Luzon Agricultural Museum is the only existing museum of its kind among State Colleges and Universities, and perhaps to date, in the entire country.

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It's just fitting that Marikina City, being popularly known as the shoe capital of the Philippines , houses the Shoe Museum.

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First of its kind in the Philippines, the Co Tec Tai Medical Museum showcases the history of medical practice and health care in the Philippines.

The museum is located at the 4th floor of the Sonlie Building, 2652 Taft Avenue Pasay City (between Edsa Rotonda and Libertad street). It is open Mondays to Saturdays from 9 AM to 5 PM. Visitors are welcome to visit in large groups. Students in high schools, colleges, and especially in the health sciences are welcome to tour the museum. Admission is free!

komikerodin, The Philippine Comics Art Museum  wrote on Nov 6, 2011: A video I made in 2006. A lot of things have changed since then. But I wanted to show this now to all those reading and creating new komiks in the Philippines today.

Galleries - Etc. about art

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A Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art whose goal is to discover and promote the works of young, talented but deserving Filipino Artists and to foster cultural interaction and exchanges with the local regions and other countries. Website contains info about the current exhibit, updates, and works and biography of various artists

An online gallery and a platform for online exhibitions of Filipino artists. Concentrates on the contemporary concepts revolving around modern painting and sculpture in the Philippines

online gallery offers a wide range of artpieces by 25 established contemporary Filipino artists

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In the Philippines, the baroque churches of the Spanish colonial period constitute the most emblematic element of the country's architectural heritage.

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