A planetarium and geology museum in barangay Buang, 854 metres above sea level at the foot of Mayon and inside the volcano's permanent danger zone of 6 kilometres. The single-storey building holds a library, a virtual room, a mini-museum and …
A former Marcos family house, now a museum of Imelda Marcos's collection and of objects tied to the Santo Niño, the patron saint of the city. Imelda Marcos had it built between 1979 and 1981, one of 20 presidential palaces …
A small collection of Ifugao carvings, textiles and photographs from the Beyer family.
Free to enter, built as the old legislature, and home to Juan Luna's Spoliarium. The neoclassical building was finished in 1921 and held the Congress of the Philippines from 1926 to 1972 and the Senate from 1987 to 1997. It …
The Crisologo family house, kept as it was, with the car in which Congressman Floro Crisologo's family travelled.
The painter Benedicto Cabrera's museum of Cordillera art and his own work, with a garden and cafe below. Cabrera, a National Artist, opened it in 2009 to hold his own collection, and he gave Cordillera indigenous art a place in …
A dig site kept as a museum, built over the grave of Balangay 1, a wooden boat dated to 320 AD. The balangays are plank-built and edge-pegged, and they average 15 metres long and 3 metres wide across the beam. …
The provincial museum: artifacts and antiques from across Cagayan, animal fossils found in the valley, and the record of the National Museum's discovery of Callao Man. It moved out of the Provincial Capitol complex into the Tribunal de Tuguegarao, the …
A war museum inside the compound of Balanga Elementary School, on the site where General Edward P. King negotiated the surrender of 76,000 USAFFE soldiers to the Japanese Imperial Army. The Surrender Site Marker stands in the same compound. The …
The place where Apolinario Mabini was born, kept as a memorial shrine. Mabini lived from 1864 to 1903. He was a revolutionary leader and statesman, and he served as foreign minister and adviser to Emilio Aguinaldo, the first Philippine president.
A museum of Islamic art and Moro culture in a white building in Marawi, a city on Lake Lanao where the Maranao people are the main inhabitants. It holds the biggest Filipino Muslim collection in the country. The collection covers …
A museum of the country's political history, in the Casa Real Shrine on Paseo del Congreso. The National Historical Commission of the Philippines runs it. It opened to the public in 2001 and moved into this building in 2016. The …
A museum and memorial to Miguel Malvar, a hero of the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War. He was the last Filipino general to surrender to the Americans, and Santo Tomas is his hometown.
The house where Jose Rizal was born on June 19, 1861, rebuilt as a two-storey bahay na bato. What stands today is a reproduction of the original. Filipino schoolchildren paid for most of the work, Juan F. Nakpil supervised it, …
A museum of the part the city took in the revolution against Spain, which it presents with reenactments of scenes from it. Imus calls itself the Flag Capital of the Philippines because the first Philippine flag was flown here, at …
The house where the Philippines declared independence from Spain on June 12, 1898. It stands in Kawit and works today as a museum and a national shrine. Every June 12, on the holiday called Araw ng Kalayaan, top government officials …
The city museum and library, in the old municipal hall on Cagayan Valley Road, 150 metres from Saint Augustine Church. It opened in 1998 as a museum of natural history and ethnography, and the city runs it as the centre …
A museum in the mansion of Victor Fernandez Gaston, son of the first Negrense sugar baron, Yves Leopold Germain Gaston. It shows how a sugar baron lived in the late 19th century. It was the first museum in the province …
The regional museum, covering prehistoric burial goods through the sugar boom, and the first government-sponsored museum in the country outside Metro Manila. It stands near the Iloilo Provincial Capitol, in a building from 1971 by the architect Sergio Penasales. The …
A town museum about the Lami-lamihan festival, the celebration that gave the city its name. Lami-Lamihan means merrymaking and conference together. When Spanish explorers asked the Yakan what the place was called, the Yakan thought they were asking about the …
A museum on the island's peoples and natural history, beside the city baywalk.
An ancestral house in Dapitan that now works as a heritage museum, known as the Balay Hamoy Museum. The display covers the exile of Jose Rizal in the town, from 1892 to 1896. Mariano Hamoy built the house in 1893. …
The provincial museum of Davao Oriental, with exhibits about the province. Its full name is the Subangan Davao Oriental Provincial Museum. The centrepiece is Davor, the skeleton of a sperm whale 16.15 metres long that beached in Governor Generoso. It …
A science museum with more than 250 exhibits, on a lot of 1.2 hectares in J. Y. Campos Park in Bonifacio Global City. It opened on March 16, 2012, and the Bonifacio Art Foundation built it. Five galleries fill 4,900 …
A museum built around El Deposito, an underground water reservoir that the Spanish authorities finished in 1882 to supply Manila and the towns around it. The reservoir held 15 million gallons and was part of the Carriedo water system, which …
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 …
One of the oldest stone houses, or bahay na bato, in Vigan, now open as a museum. Justo Angco built it in 1830 and gave it as a dowry when his daughter married Gregorio Syquia in 1875. The ground floor …
The schoolhouse where Jose Rizal had his first formal lessons, now a museum. Rizal came to Biñan as a child in June 1869 with his brother Paciano, and the two lodged at an aunt's house near the town proper. His …
Ancestral houses kept as museums, including the home of Marcela Agoncillo, who sewed the first Philippine flag. Her grandfather built that house, one of the oldest in Taal, and her husband Felipe Agoncillo lived there after their marriage in 1889. …
The first museum of Philippine modern art, started in 1960 when Fernando Zóbel gave the Ateneo his collection of post-war Filipino painters. The collection now runs from neo-realism and abstract expressionism to present-day work. The prints and drawings hold more …