Guide to Manila Museums
Ateneo Art Gallery
The Ateneo Art Gallery is recognized as the first museum of
Philippine modern art. It was established in 1960 through Fernando Zobel’s
bequest to the Ateneo of his collection of works by key Filipino post-war
artists. Through the years, other philanthropists and artists followed Zobel's initiative, filling in gaps so that the collection now surveys every Philippine art movement in the post-war era.
The Ateneo Ar Gallery also spearheads an exciting overview of young Philippine contemporary art annually through the Ateneo Art Awards, now recognized as "the most prestigious prize for an emerging artist in the Philippines".
Rizal Library Special Collections Building
Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Ave., Loyola Heights, Quezon City
Tel: (632) 426 6488, (632) 426 6001 ext. 4160
Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 7:30 PM
Saturday, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PMClosed on Sundays and holidays.
Admission is free.
Ayala Museum
Envisioned in the 1950s by Filipino abstract painter Fernando Zobel, the Ayala Museum was established in 1967 under the auspices of Ayala Foundation Inc. It began as a museum of Philippine history and iconography and transformed itself into a museum of fine arts and history as the 20th century drew to a close.
The fine arts collection features important works by three painters considered to be the pioneers of Philippine art: Juan Luna, Fernando Amorsolo and Fernando Zobel.
The museum also houses permanent exhibitions that span a millennium of contact between the Philippines and the great cultures of Asia and Europe materially expressed in trade ceramics, textiles, and archaeological gold recovered in the Philippines.
Makati Ave. cor. De La Rosa St., Greenbelt Park, Makati City
Tel: (632) 757 7117 to 21 loc. 10 or 35
Email: museum_inquiry@ayalamuseum.org
www.ayalamuseum.org
Tuesday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Closed on Mondays
Bahay Tsinoy
Witness the saga of the Chinese in the Philippines. Journey with them in their evolution from sojourners to Tsinoys. This is their story. This is our story.
From the age of our forefathers to the turmoil of today, our journey is not yet done. We walk hand in hand with the rest of the Filipino people towards a future of hope.
The Tsinoys are not bystanders. Like the rest of our countrymen, we toil, sacrifice, and give to this nation that we call home.
Whatever we do as businessmen, teachers, government workers, organizations, artists, community workers, we do because we are Filipinos.
Kaisa Heritage Center
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Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino and Asian Traditional Musical Instruments
Cultural Center of the Philippines
The Museo explains the Philippine arts in relation to the basic needs they sought to fulfill.
The CCP Collection of Asian traditional musical instruments were acquired from 1969-1986 though donations to the CCP by governments of the countries represented: China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and recently, Korea. The Philippines musical instruments are a donation from National Artists for Music, Dr. Lucrecia R. Kasilag, a musical instrument collector for over 50 years.
Casa Manila
Casa Manila is run by the Intramuros Administration, a government agency created in 1979 to restore Intramuros and to rehabilitate it after the last world war caused its deterioration.
Casa Manila, a “colonial lifestyle” museum which opened in 1983, is only a section of Plaza San Luis Complex, a commercial-cultural complex. As with all new structures built within the walls of Intramuros, facades here are based on colonial period designs.
The façade of Casa Manila was copied from a house (ca. 1850) at Calle Jaboneros in San Nicolas, a district across the river. You will find shops on the ground floor where you may buy antiques, art objects and souvenir items.
Lopez Memorial Museum
The Lopez Museum provides an intimate yet always challenging experience to audiences interested in discovering the intersections between the Philippines’ colonial and recent past alongside projections unto its future.
This medium-sized facility houses changing multimedia exhibition which bring Filipino contemporary art and popular culture in conversations with objects in its 50-year old collection of 19th century paintings and drawings by Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, works by National Artists of the Philippines, and several seminal modernists.
Metropolitan Museum of Manila
The Met has acquired paintings, sculpture and prints thru generous donations from Philippine artists, artists’ heirs, and private collectors. These form the nucleues of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila permanent collection of Philippine contemporary art, and are exhibited on a changing basis, in thematic shows with varying responsive and education messages. The Met also curates the art collection of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, whose pre-hispanic gold and pottery collections are on permanent exhibit.
Museo Pambata
Museo Pambata is the country’s first interactive children’s museum established to enhance the lives of Filipino children. It has eight theme rooms where children, families, and school groups can explore new and exciting learning opportunities wherein they can relive our cultural heritage, assume a pro-active role in caring for the environment, understand how the human body works, discover science through play, imagine what they can become someday and understand human rights in a global perspective. Education programs for children and adults enhance Museo Pambata’s interactive exhibits.
University of Santo Tomas Museum
Originally located in Intramuros, the UST Museum was later transferred to its present site at the paraninfo of the UST Main Building in 1936. The paraninfo was meant to be a multi-purpose venue for academic functions and cultural events. It expanded its collection to include works of art after UST’s First National Painting Exhibit in 1941 when it acquired works by Filipino masters such as Fernando Amorsolo, Carlos “Botong” Francisco, Vicente Manansala and Galo Ocampo.
The museum now permanently displays specimens of natural history, coins, medals and memorabilia, ethnographic materials, oriental art objects, Philippine religious images, and paintings.
Mezzanine Level, Main Building
University of Santo Tomas
Espana Boulevard, Sampaloc, Manila
Tel: (632)406-1611 loc. 8337
Email: museum@mnl.ust.edu.ph
Website: http://ustmuseum.ust.edu.ph
Museum Hours
Tuesday- Saturday, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Closed on Sundays and Mondays
Admission: students – Php30.00
Non-student Php 50.00
1335 Mabini
1335 A. Mabini St. Ermita, Manila
Web: www.1335mabini.com
Phone: +63 2 254 8498
Hours: Tuesday - Friday: 2pm - 7pm; Satuday: 10am - 7pm; Sunday: 10am - 2pm
98B
Mezzanine, First United Bldg., 413 Escolta St., (in front of JRS Express/PLDT), Manila
Email: hello@98-b.org
Web: www.98-b.org
Finale Art File
Warehouse 17, La Fuerza Compound (Gate 1), 2241 Chino Roces Ave. Ext., Makati City
Phone: +63 2 823 2310, +63 2 812 5034
Email: info@finaleartfile.com
Hours: Monday - Saturday: 10am - 7pm
Silverlens Gallery
2F YMC Bldg. 2, 2320 Don Chino Roces Ave. Ext., Makati City
Phone: +63 2 816 0044, +63 917 587 4011
Email: info@silverlensgalleries.com
Web: www.silverlensgalleries.com
Hours: Monday - Friday: 10am - 7pm; Saturday: 12nn - 10pm
The Drawing Room
1007 Metropolitan Ave., Metrostar Bldg., Makati City
Phone: +63 2 897 7877
Email: contact@drawingroomgallery.com
Hours: Monday - Friday: 10am - 6pm; Saturday: 10am - 5pm
Kanto
The Collective, 7274 Malugay St., Makati City
Phone: +63 2 940 8310
Email: parasakanto@gmail.com
Hours: Wednesday - Saturday: 10am - 6pm
MABINIEXTN
The Collective, 7274 Malugay St., Makati City
Phoe: +63 2 940 8310
Email: parasakanto@gmail.com
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday: 2pm - 10mpm
Vinyl On Vinyl
The Collective, 7274 Malugay St., Makati City
Phone: +63 922 848 7427
Email: vinylonvinyl@gmail.com
Web: vinylonvinyl.blogspot.com
Hours: Tuesday - Thursday: 12nn - 7pm; Friday - Saturday: 12nn - 10pm
MO_Space
3rd Level, Mos Design Bldg., Bonifacio High Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City
Phone: +63 2 856 2748 ext. 2 or 3, +63 917 668 3951
Email: exhibitions@mo-space.net
Web: www.mo-space.net
Hours: Monday - Sunday: 11am - 8pm
Pablo
C-11 South of Market, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City
Phone: +63 2 400 7905
Email: fort@pablogalleries.com
Web: www.pablogalleries.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 12nn - 7pm
Galleria Duemila
210 Loring St., Pasay City
Phoe: +63 2 831 9990, +63 2 833 9815
Email: gduemila@gmail.com
Web: www.galleriaduemila.com
Hours: Monday - Saturday: 10am - 6pm
ArtInformal
277 Connecticut St., Greenhilss East, Mandaluyong City
Phone: +63 2 725 8518, +63 918899 2698
Web: www.artinformal.com
Secret Fresh Gallery
RONAC Art Center, Ortigas Ave., Greenhills, San Juan City
Phone: +63 2 570 9815 loc. 7
Email: freshmanila@gmail.com
Hours: Monday - Saturday: 12nn - 7pm; Sunday - 1pm - 6pm
Post
Shop 7, Cubao Expo, Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City
Phone: +63 920 960 5690
Email: post@pablogalleries.com
Web: www.pablogalleries.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 12nn - 7pm
Blanc Gallery
145 Katipunan Ave., St. Ignatius Village, Quezon City
Phone: +63 2 442 5262, + ^3 920 927 6436
Email: info@blanc.ph
West Gallery
48 West Ave., Quezon City
Phone: +63 2 411 0336
Email: info@westgallery.org
Web: www.westgallery.org
