National Museum of the Philippines
The National Museum of the Philippines ( Filipino : Pambansang Museo ng Pilipinas ) is located between the city fortress Intramuros and Rizal Park on P. Burgos Street in Manila and is the most important museum in the Philippines .
task
The museum provides information about the art and culture of the Filipino nation, its different peoples, their origins, development and their cultural heritage. It houses the most important research facilities for documenting the flora and fauna of the country. Other areas of focus are anthropology , archeology , geology , botany , zoology and astronomy . There is a planetarium near the building complex .
history
The first forerunner of the museum, founded in 1901, had the task of collecting information about ethnology, natural history and the historical trade of the Philippines, which was reflected in the name: Insular Museum of Ethnology, Natural History and Commerce . The name was changed in 1903 in the office for the study of Ethnology ( Bureau of Ethnological Survey ). This name was again in 1904, after an exhibition in St. Louis , changed to Philippine Museum ( Philippine Museum ). The field of research in ethnology was taken over by the Ministry of Education in 1906. In the course of its history, the museum has had to give up and take up subjects several times. In 1945 the entire museum building was destroyed in the USAAF bombing . After the war, the museum was subordinated to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Philippines and from 1951 to the Ministry of Education.
The current organizational structure was introduced in 1988 with new disciplines. On February 12, 1998, President Fidel Ramos signed the National Museum Act of 1998 (Republic Law 8492), which introduced the National Museum System, which allowed centralized control of the activities of the individual museums under the direction of the departments of the National Museum of the Philippines.
Exhibitions
Significant permanent exhibitions are the history of the Philippine nation (The Story of the Filipino People), the treasures of San Diego (The Treasures of the San Diego).
Other exhibits come from the excavations in the Cagayan Valley , Arubo (Nueva Eijca) , Butuan (Mindanao) , the Lena Shoal Junk and Banton (Romblon) .
The preserved remains of a pre-colonial Philippine merchant ship of the Balangay type are on display.
Trivia
The museum was headed by Epifanio de los Santos from May 16, 1925 until his death , who was able to secure extensive documents about the Philippines in Europe.
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Coordinates: 14 ° 35 ′ 13.7 ″ N , 120 ° 58 ′ 52.6 ″ E