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The Museum that Revealed the History

Museums are known by bringing objects to our real life. Artworks, artifacts used by our ancestors and technologies are some of the things that we could see inside the museum. All museums are educational. They give us informations that we don’t know. As we see it through our windows of our soul , our brain receives and processess the datas gathered. The museum is a flashback place to our Philippine history and for the discoveries.

also steling money from the museum. There are many museums in the Philippines

like the National Museum, Museo Pambata, Archdiocesan Museum of Manila, Ateneo

Art Gallery, Ayala Museum, CCP Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino, Casa Manila, Lopez

Museum, The Presidential Museum and Library, The Mind Museum and many more.

But of all of these museums, Ayala Museum stands out.

We all know that there are museums that do not require picture taking. This is because you are damaging artists’ claims to their intellectual property and you are also steling money from the museum. There are many museums in the Philippines like the National Museum, Museo Pambata, Archdiocesan Museum of Manila, Ateneo Art Glery, Ayala Museum, CCP Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino, Casa Manila, Lopez Museum, The Presidential Museum and Library, The Mind Museum and many more.

But of all of these museums, Ayala Museum stands out.

"Re-collecting the past, re-presenting the future”. This quotation of the Ayala Museum best describes the roal of this museum as history and art. “Re-collecting the past” means treasuring the country’s material while “Re-presenting the future” means art as part of our Filipino culture. Some of the museum’s exhibitions are:

The Diorama Experience

Diorama is a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes nclosed in a glass showcase in some museums. Here you could see the historical collections of the Philippines like the recognition of Philippine independence by the United States in 1946, First EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986 and many more.

Maritime Vessels

In Ayala Museum, you could see a miniature of the different watercrafts of a boat gallery that leads to the development of Philippine maritime trade and colonial economy.

Pioneers of Philippine Art

Works of Luna, Amorsolo, and Zobel were displayed in this museum. Their works were influential to the Filipinos where they expressed their emotions thorough their masterpiece.

Gold of Ancestors

It is an exhibition of gold before the colonization in 16th before were usually made of gold like the array of golden sashes, necklaces, earrings and finger rings, bracelets and anklets.

As a whole, museums were built to educate the people going there. Museums were also for the conservation of the things that happened in the Philippine history or to conserve the materials that were used by our ancestors earlier. Museums are collections of the important objects and events in our country. Without them, the future generations would not have enough information about our Philippine history.