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Halina't pumunta sa Pambansang Museo ng ating Bansa!
National Museum of the Philippines is a government institution in the Philippines and serve as an educational, scientific and cultural institution in preserving the various permanent national collections featuring the ethnographic, anthropological archaeological and visual artistry of the Phillipines. It was October 29, 1901 when National Museum was formed. And when 1988 it has been regulatate and enforce by agency of the National Goverment for restoring and safeguarding of important cultural properties, sites and reservations throughout the Philippines.
The National Museum operates the:
1. National Museum of Fine Arts also called 'National Art Gallery'
2. National Museum of Anthropology or Museum of the Filipono People
3. National Museum of Natural History
4. National Museum Planetarium. And all of this are located in the vicinity of Rizal Park in Manila.
Here are some most famous paintings in National Museum
The Spolarium
This historic hall was the site of the 1934 Constitutional Convention chaired by Claro M. Recto, as well as of many other significant events. It houses one of the country’s most well known paintings, the Spoliarium by Juan Luna Y Novicio.
(Altar piece) from the Church of San Nicolas de Tolentino
Christian themed art in the Philippines was prevalent in the 17th to the 19th centuries when parts of the country was under Spanish colonial rule. Many of these religious images were of carved wooden santos (saints) made by unknown artists, as well as reliefs and paintings of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ.
Philippine Plants
In the mid-1700s, Spanish pharmacologist and botanist Juan José de Cuéllar commissioned Filipino artists to make drawings of Philippine plants that he had collected from his field work in Luzon. The drawings were kept in the archives of the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid for over a century, and were rediscovered in 1988 by researcher Maria Belen Bañas Llanos.
How to go from Quiapo Church to National Museum
Since we’re in the Philippines, it’s a nature to ride a jeep. From Quiapo Church you can ride a jeep with a placard of Kalaw or Quirino, then get off in Luneta and walk little to the National Museum! Only 15 to 20 minutes will consume on your time. Enjoy!
