Ayala Museum

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A private museum of fine arts and history, best known for Gold of Ancestors, a display of more than one thousand gold objects made before the Spanish came. The Ayala Foundation runs it, and the rest of the collection covers archaeology, ethnography, coins and church art. The museum opened in April 1967 and reopened in December 2021 after a renovation that took two years.

The Diorama Experience uses sixty handcrafted dioramas to follow Philippine history from prehistoric times to 1946, and closes with a multimedia account of the 1986 People Power revolution. A Millennium of Contact holds more than 500 Chinese and Southeast Asian ceramics found in the country. The six-storey building of granite, steel and glass went up in 2004 on the site of the first museum, and the second floor gallery, reached from Greenbelt, is free to enter.

Town

Makati City

Written by an editor · 22 Sep 2026 · source: Wikipedia, Ayala Museum; Makati