Author: National Museum of the Philippines

This Museums and Galleries Month, your National Museum in Bicol will conduct an onsite event on 2022 October 6, entitled, Heritage Connect: Exclusive Gallery Access—Rafflesia baletei with some selected students from Malabog National High School. 

This exclusive event will provide an opportunity for the participants to appreciate our natural history through the replica of a Rafflesia baletei in full bloom, which is a rare sight. There will be a short talk about this natural history specimen and an exclusive guided tour will come after.

The Rafflesia baletei is endemic to Bicol and was first collected in 1991 by Bicolano mammologist Danilo S. Balete in Mt. Isarog.  This is considered as one of the smallest species of the world’s largest flower-Rafflesia.

For mor details, please send us an email here: bicol@nationalmuseum.gov.ph.

Calling the professionals, and college and senior high school students in the field of creatives, and behavioral and social sciences! In celebration of the Museum and Galleries Month 2022, your National Museum of the Philippines invites you to a lecture, “Selling the Exotic Ethnic: On the History of the Filipino Souvenir Store and Filipiniana Displays 1888-2022″. Click the link below or access the QR for the registration. Registration will be open until October 03, 2022.

https://bit.ly/3QMT72v

Your National Museum of the Philippines will be having travel photographer George Tapan for a photography lecture on Art of Biodiversity this Museums and Galleries Month!

George Tapan is an award-winning travel photographer who has won two Pacific Asia Tourism Association (PATA) Gold awards, an ASEAN Tourism Association award, and a 2011 National Geographic Photography contest.

Catch Mr. Tapan at his lecture, “Art of Biodiversity” at the BDO East Function Hall, 6F, National Museum of Natural History on 14 October 2022 (Friday), 1:00 pm. Admission to this event is free, but seats are limited. Register now through: https://forms.gle/VNeKif9KPypfvdwW8

For questions or inquiries, please email educationandtraining@nationalmuseum.gov.ph and natmus_zoo@yahoo.com.

Join us as we celebrate Museums and Galleries Month (MGM) and National Indigenous People’s Month (NIPM) at the #NationalMuseumPH! 

As part of the activities for MGM and NIPM, the National Museum of the Philippines will organize a lecture and pop-up exhibition by Ms. Ditta Sandico entitled, Journey Beyond Fashion at the Gallery 1, National Museum of Anthropology on October 15, 2022 at 2:00 in the afternoon. 

Ms. Sandico is a fashion designer for more than three decades. Her passion involves the use of locally available fibers like pineapple, abaca, and cotton in her creations. She has been supporting and working with weaving communities in Bulacan, Ilocos Sur, Mindoro, and Catanduanes. Through this event, may her advocacy and passion radiate to young aspiring designers to work with our local weaving communities.

#DittaSandico

#MGM

#NIPM

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Three meteorites return home!

Your #NationalMuseumPH will officially launch the “Philippine Meteorites” exhibition on October 7, 2022. It features pieces from three of the six confirmed meteorites from the Philippines– Pantar, Bondoc, and Orconuma. These space rocks will be on public display at the Godofredo Alcasid Function Hall located on the ground floor of the National Museum of Natural History at the National Museum of the Philippines Complex in Rizal Park, Manila.

Are you missing the Planetarium? Scratch your cosmic itch and visit us and learn more about the history of our solar system!