FREE WEBINAR. Who’s up for a review on the archaeological studies in the Eastern Northern Mindanao, specifically in #Butuan?

In celebration of the International Museum Day (May 18) and National Heritage Month (May), your #NationalMuseumPH brings you “Curators’ Talk: The Beads, Boats, and Bowls of Butuan”, a free webinar on May 18, 2022, Wednesday, at 9am-12nn via Zoom and Facebook Live.

This is a three (3)-hour webinar to discuss and highlight the national archaeological collections excavated from Butuan and currently on display and are being conserved at the NMP-ENM and the National Museum of #Anthropology.

Resource persons shall be experts from the Archaeology Division to discuss the following topics: Overview and Updates of the Butuan Archaeological Project; Ceramic Collections from Butuan; and Lawson Heritage and Preservation. After the lectures, a question-and-answer portion shall follow.

Just fit for the #NHM2022 theme which says, “PAMANANG LOKAL: Binhi ng Kulturang Pilipino”, this activity aims at highlighting the importance of preserving and promoting local heritage within the community and its impact on shaping the Philippine cultural identity.

It is also aimed that through this event, we shall be able to generate the interest of educators and learners for further archaeological studies and research in the region.

The vicinity of Butuan, where the Regional Museum is located, has been recognized as an Archaeological Site by Presidential Proclamation 86 of President Corazon Aquino. Said proclamation declared the Balangay a National Cultural Treasure. Since then, Butuan became famous to contemporary society with the discovery of the first plank-built edge-pegged boat in the early 70s. In earlier times, around the 10th century or thereabouts, Butuan was already famous for other places in Southeast Asia and China for participating in the Southeast Asian Maritime Trading. Involvement can be traced to the nine (9) boats identified then, the thousands of ceramic pieces and other artifacts recovered, and ecofacts.

The webinar will give further understanding of the maritime involvement of ButuanCity, its artifacts, and ecofacts that were recovered in association with boat-building, trade,and habitation. In partnership with the NMP Archaeology Division, the NMP-ENM targets to bring this online event to the history and social sciences educators and students in the region and in Mindanao.

Should you want to learn more about these, join us and pre-register through this link: bit.ly/cutalk518.

We look forward to your active participation!

In celebration of the National Heritage Month and International Museum Day, the #NationalMuseumPH through its Central Museum Visitors Operation Division (CMVOD), invites museum fans to join a One-Day Special Guided Tour entitled “Pamanang Pilipino: Puno, Palayok, Pinsel”, on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. The activity will be simultaneously conducted at 10 am and 2pm in all three buildings of the NMP complex namely – National Museum of Fine Arts, National Museum of Anthropology, and National Museum of Natural History.

For those who want to join the activity, you may register with our frontline staff stationed near the entrances of our museum buildings at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the tour. Slots are limited to a maximum of 25 participants per session to practice social distancing and ensure safety.

Through its interpretive services, the National Museum aims to educate and inspire its
visitors on the importance of promoting, preserving, and protecting the rich cultural
heritage and natural resources of the Philippines.

SEE YOU THERE!

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Date: May 18, 2022

Even in this time of the new normal, the #NationalMuseumPH remains in service to the public through its offering of different educational programs/activities from its central office and regional museums nationwide. This year, as the NMP participates in the celebration of the International Museum Day, the Museum Services Division invites the public to its Seminar on Museum Practices program with the theme “Building Resilience Towards NMP’s Collections And Heritage Management: Exhibition, Curation, Preservation & Digitization”.

The Seminar on Museum Practices is a regular program of NMP that was conceptualized to uphold transparency on the museum’s various programs and efforts in achieving its goals.  It intends to create venue for curators, researchers, conservators, and other museum workers to report to the public their recent and ongoing programs and projects participation to various local and international trainings and conferences in various fields of museum work. These include research, conservation, exhibition, museum management, and public programs.

The seminar is a half-day (3 – hour) series of lectures that will feature NMP staff from the central and regional museums. Ms. Honey P. Beso of the NMP Western Visayas Regional Museum, and Ms. Malot Ingel of NMP Ilocos Regional Museum Complex will present about their three-week CollAsia training course on “Planning New Exhibitions: Conservation, Communication, Community” that was held at the Lao National Museum in Vientiane, Laos.   There will also be a presentation on the “Challenges and Opportunities in Conveying Underwater Cultural Heritage During the Pandemic” that will be discussed by Mr. Nero Austero from the Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage Division.

The activity will be on May 18, 2022, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and will be open to the public for free which can be attended through Zoom Meeting and Facebook Live. It can also be attended onsite but on a limited capacity at the Auditorium, Ground Floor, National Museum of Fine Arts, Padre Burgos Ave., Manila. Kindly register thru the link https://bit.ly/SOMP2022

Please register early as we have limited slots for the onsite participants. An e-mail confirmation with the Zoom link 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

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Workshops on paper mosaic and bookmark-making featuring the National Ethnographic Collection at the National Museum of Anthropology

May 19-20, 2022

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  May 7 – Bookmark making poster A

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  May 7 – Bookmark making poster B (1)

The National Museum of the Philippines-Cordillera Regional Museum in Kiangan, Ifugao, in collaboration with the NMP Gender and Development Focal Point System (GAD-FPS) and Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement (SITMo), will be conducting a lecture-demonstration on Ifugao textile and basket weaving on May 19 and 20, 2022 at the Indigenous Peoples Education (IPED) Center at Poblacion, Kiangan, Ifugao.

The event will feature members of the Kiyyangan Weavers Association, who will share how they learned the craft and how they were eventually empowered through weaving. This is in line with the  aim to highlight the role of women in safeguarding and transmitting intangible cultural heritage, particularly Ifugao textile and basket weaving traditions. Mr. Marlon M. Martin, the Chief Operations Officer of SITMo, will moreover impart related experiences from his decades-long involvement at the forefront of Ifugao and Cordillera heritage advocacies.

Also to be conducted as a workshop, this activity will enlist the participation of the community’s youth to encourage and inspire young learners, researchers, and culture enthusiasts on Ifugao weaving not only to appreciate the rich culture that the crafts reflect, but more so to actively engage in the efforts to safeguard such heritage and ensure their preservation.

The two-day activity is also your #NationalMuseumPH Cordillera’s way of promoting women weavers in the Cordillera who were not spared from the financial crisis and other setbacks brought about by the pandemic. Sustaining the quality of their work up to the present amidst different challenges, the women’s craft greatly contributes to the continued appreciation especially of the woven textiles’ cultural significance among the Ifugao, as well as their relevance to Cordillera and Filipino cultural identities. Remarkably, the Ifugao weavers’ products have also been acknowledged by international textile enthusiasts for their exceptional artisanship.

The lectures and demonstrations will be conducted for free.

For more information, kindly call 09568721928 (globe) or 09190779853 (smart). You may also e-mail NM Cordillera at nm_kianganbranch@yahoo.com