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Junior Museum Guide Program Launch

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As we celebrate the Museums and Galleries Month this October 2022 (MGM 2022) with this year’s theme “Embracing Uncertainty: Showcasing Solidarity, Hope and Recovery”, the National Museum of the Philippines through the Museum Services Division’s Education and Training Services Section would like to emphasize and recognize the essential function of museum guides who play the big role in engaging and educating museum visitors through launching a new program, the Junior Museum Guide. 

This program is basically a training on museum guiding focused on encouraging and training Junior High School students to be a “Junior Museum Guide” through lectures and workshops. This program further aims to inspire its target participants to consider taking up academic strands that leads to pursuing museum-related courses in the future. Speakers from the Central Museum Visitor Operations Division (CMVOD) will share their museum guiding expertise to the recipients of the program. Ms. Melanie A. Ramirez, CMVOD’s Supervising Administrative Officer will discuss about “The Art of Storytelling in Museum Guiding” to be followed by a workshop while Ms. April Joy G. Santiago, CMVOD’s Information Officer I will tackle “The Basics of Tour Guiding” on the first Saturday. The next two Saturdays will focus on museum guiding observation and experience /practicum.                                     

This free onsite activity will be on October 29, November 5 and 12, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and will be offered to a maximum of 30 Junior High School students only, aged thirteen to fifteen (13-15) years old with subjects in Araling Panlipunan, Arts, and Science who are currently enrolled in public or private schools in Manila. It will be held at the 2/F Gallery 1 of the National Museum of Anthropology, Finance Road Gate, Manila. Kindly register thru the link https://bit.ly/NMP_Junior-Guide. An e-mail confirmation with the parent’s consent form will be sent to the registered e-mail address of the confirmed participants. For more information, contact the National Museum of the Philippines’ Museum Services Division, Education and Training Services Section at educationandtraining@nationalmuseum.gov.ph

Visit National Artist Kidlat Tahimik’s “INDIO-GENIUS: 500 Taon ng Labanang Kultural (1521-2021”

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THE LONG WAIT IS OVER! 

The National Museum of the Philippines has finally launched National Artist Kidlat Tahimik’s INDIO-GENIUS: 500 Taon ng Labanang Kultural (1521-2021). 

We are also happy to announce that everyone can now view this exhibition on Saturday, OCTOBER 22, 2022, along with the reopening of the National Museum of Anthropology!

We invited our friends from the press for a media preview of the exhibition last Monday with “Tatay Kidlat” himself giving a tour of his installations depicting his quirky retelling of our cultural struggles throughout history. 

During the launch, Tatay Kidlat, joined by his fellow Indio-Genius, conducted a ceremonial performance – beginning with a “reenactment” of his cultural reawakening followed by various incantations by notable members of ethnolinguistic groups who have collaborated with the National Artist through the years.

Despite the on and off drizzle, members of the NMP Board of Trustees, the National Commission of Culture and the Arts, and other partner agencies and institutions came to celebrate the launching event. Also present in the reception were family, friends and colleagues, members of the academic community, fellow filmmakers, and other guests and artists from his hometown Baguio City.

Such great timing to open the third week of #MGM2022! Coming up this week are some special pop-up performances, including an immersive music and dance experience by UP Diliman’s Kontra-GaPi at the National Museum of Anthropology to kick off the exhibition’s public opening.

See you at your #NationalMuseumPH!

“ANGKING PILIPINO: Samu’t-saring Musika, Sayaw, at Sining” featuring Kontra-GaPi

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The Kontemporaryong Gamelan Pilipino (Kontra-GaPi) is the resident Ethnic Music and Dance Ensemble of the College of Arts and Letters of the University of the Philippines-Diliman. The troupe which has extensively performed locally and abroad, showcases and promotes the artistic excellence and diverse cultures of the Philippines through their distinctive mix of music, dance, and mime. Museum viewers will have a chance to watch them live at the soon-to-reopen National Museum of Anthropology on October 22, 3PM.

Performing Luna: In Celebration of Juan Luna’s 165th Birth Anniversary” featuring the Far Eastern University Dance Company and Scholars from the Friends for Cultural Concerns of the Philippines (FCCP)

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Join us for a FREE performance-led tour at the National Museum of Fine Arts this October 23!

In celebration of Museums and Galleries Month and the 165th birth anniversary of our country’s foremost Filipino painting master, Juan Novicio Luna on October 24, the #NationalMuseumPH invites you to a performance-led tour of the Spoliarium Hall and the Far East Bank and Trust and Company – Andres and Grace Luna de San Pedro Memorial Hall (Gallery VI) of the National Museum of Fine Arts (NMFA) on October 23, 2022, Sunday.

This activity will show a glimpse of the artistic life of Juan Luna through his masterpieces in these exhibition galleries, providing an enhanced visitor experience at the National Museum of Fine Arts. Dancers, singers, and instrumentalists will come from the Far Eastern University Center for the Arts and scholars from the Friends for Cultural Concerns of the Philippines (FCCP) led by FCCP President and Director Mr. Martin Lopez.

See you this Sunday at your #NationalMuseumPh!

Choral Performance at the Museum featuring the UP Manila Chorale

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To complete the lineup of performances for the third week of the Museums and Galleries Month celebration at the National Museum of the Philippines, the University of the Philippines Manila Chorale will perform for the museum visitors of the National Museum of Natural History on Sunday, October 26.  A short museum-themed repertoire is set to anchor the collections and exhibitions of the Museum of Natural History and the theme of this year’s MGM celebration.  

These performance-led activities at the museum intend to offer visitors different and augmented museum experiences and aim to explore various creative and alternative ways of promoting Filipino Heritage, particularly the NMP collections, exhibitions, and its advocacies making it interesting and relevant to various museum audiences.

The UPMC is the multi-awarded official performing group for choral music of the University of the Philippines Manila, presently led by its music director, Mr. John Steven Verrosa.

Make sure to be at the Museum in the afternoon to witness their choral performance!

Happy Museums and Galleries Month!

#NationalMuseumPh

#MGM2022

Alfredo Evangelista Death Anniversary Commemoration

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We commemorate Alfredo Evangelista – archaeologist, anthropologist, educator, and former assistant director of the #NationalMuseumPH, on his 14th death anniversary #OnThisDay, October 18.

Assistant Director Evangelista ca. 1973 during the 1st ASEAN Field School in barrio San Piro, Balayan, Batangas. Photo from the NMP archives.

Considered one of the pioneering Filipino archaeologists, Evangelista’s interest in the discipline started during his undergraduate studies at the University of the East, under the mentorship of Wilhelm Solheim II. He has since been involved in several archaeological explorations and excavations of the following sites: Batungan Cave and Kalanay Cave in Masbate (with Solheim); Bato Caves in Sorsogon, and Cagraray, Albay in Bicol; and Sta. Ana, Calatagan and San Piro, Balayan in Batangas. His well-known archaeological undertaking is perhaps the Duyong Cave excavation in Palawan in the 1960s, where the oldest evidence of betel nut chewing in the country, associated with a primary Neolithic burial, was discovered.

Assistant Director Evangelista (center) inspecting the instructional materials in “Educational Loan Kit,” as part of the educational project of the NMP ca. 1985. Photo from the National Museum Annual Report 1985.

Evangelista was responsible for acquiring 4 National Cultural Treasures (or NCTs)—the Calatagan Ritual Pot, Laguna Copperplate Inscription, Marinduque Celadon Jar, and Banton Cloth. A model employee who allegedly did not file for even a single day of leave of absence, he started his career at the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) as a laboratory aide in 1951 and retired as a Director III in 1991. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Chicago in Illinois, under a Fulbright scholarship, and at the University of Hawaii. Throughout his lifelong career, he also accepted teaching appointments at the University of the Philippines-Diliman and the University of Santo Tomas.

Assistant Director Evangelista (leftmost) during the opening of an exhibition in October 1980 in line with the celebration of National Museum Week. Photo from the National Museum Annual Report 1980.

In recognition of Evangelista’s contributions to Philippine archaeology, one of the 5 National Archaeological Repositories maintained by the NMP-Archaeology Division was named after him.

CLICK links to learn more about the NCTs featured in previous #TrowelTuesday posts of our #MuseumFromHome series:

Calatagan Ritual Pot –  https://tinyurl.com/CalataganRitualPot

Laguna Copperplate Inscription –  https://tinyurl.com/LagunaCopperplateInscription

Marinduque Celadon Jar – https://tinyurl.com/MarinduqueCeladonJar

#MGM2022
#AlfredoEvangelista
#PioneeringFilipinoArchaeologist

Article by Maricar Belarmino and poster by Timothy James Vitales | NMP Archaeology Division

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References:

Evangelista, A. 2001. Soul Boats A Filipino Journey of Self Discovery (Selected essays of Alfredo

E. Evangelista). Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts

Peralta, J. 2010. Obituary: Alfredo Esguerra Evangelista, Essential Archaeologist in AghamTao:

Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc (UGAT)/ Anthropological Association of

the Philippines. Vol. 19: 81-83

Solheim II, W. 2009. Obituary: Alfredo E. Evangelista (1926-2008) in Hukay. Vol. 14: 114-120

Legaspi, A. 1974. Bolinao: A 14th-15th Century Burial Site. Museum Publication No. 7. National

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