Museums are known for it's historical displays, from paintings, sculptures, traditional and cultural clothes, war equipments, animal artifacts, wonders of environment, and more. It's warm and eye pleasing ambiance you will surely relax while roaming around it.
One of the known places here in Metro Manila is Luneta Park or also known us Rizal Park, is a place where in you can enjoy the history of the Philippines' National Hero "Dr. Jose Rizal." You can also take a jog, spend your time in watching the dancing fountain but it's more beautiful in the evening as it dance with lights. Inside the park you can also take a look to it's museums; National Museum of Fine Arts, National Museum of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, and National Planetarium.
National Museum of Fine Arts
National Museum of Fine Arts or also known as The National Art Gallery, is composed of the Philippines art from 17th to 20th century.
The Museum is also consists of the art from the famous artists such as Juan Luna, Guillermo Tolentino, Fernando C. Amorsolo, Carlos V. Francisco. It's has galleries about Jose Rizal's famous novels "Noli Me Tangere" and "El Filibusterismo", gallery about Botanical garden in Madrid, Academic and Romantic art, Academic and Neoclassical sculpture, the Senate floor, and the Pillars of Philippine Modernism.
The buildings are usually designed as a public library by Ralph Harrington Doane, the American consulting architect of the Office of Public Works, and his associate, Antonio Toledo. Construction started in 1918, but was halted multiple times due to lack of funds. The building was officially opened on 16 July 1926, and by then it had cost four million pesos. The building was part of Daniel Burnham's Manila Development Plan. After completion, the second , third and fourth floors were occupied by the Senate and the House of Representatives, while the National Library was housed on the ground floor.
National Museum of Fine Arts is the best place for the people who are fun and love arts. You can surely be amaze to different paintings and sculptures there.
National Museum of Anthropology
The National Museum of Anthropology, formerly known as the Filipino People's Museum, is part of the National Museum of the Philippines, which houses ethnological and archaeological exhibits.
The museum includes items and artifacts related to archaeology, primitive civilizations, languages, rituals, practices and the history of the Philippines. The offices of the Museum Foundation of the Philippines, the Archeology Division, the Ethnology Division, the Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage Division and the National Museum Library are situated on the ground floor.
The second floor consists of two galleries: San Diego: 500 Years of Maritime Commerce, and Garing: the Philippines at the Crossroads of Ivory Trade. The third and fourth floors contain a variety of exhibits. One of the museum's exhibits, showcasing the work and life of 13 Manlilikha ng Bayan (National Living Treasures). They were awarded the Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA) Award in appreciation of their involvement and the preservation of culture. With them are Teofilo Garcia (or Apu Pilo, the last tabungaw creator we interviewed last November 2017) and Apu Whang-Od, the last mambabatok (tattoo artist).
Showcasing the traditional ancient Filipino script,Baybayin. Archeological objects such as the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, Calatagan Pot and some books lent by the UST, the NHCP and the National Library are seen here. Some tools, musical instruments, ornaments and pots with Baybayin inscriptions from the native tribes of Mindoro and Palawan are also seen.
If you want to go back and learn about the cultural diversity of the Philippines and it's people, National Museum of Anthropology is the place you can be.
National Museum of Natural History
The National Museum of Natural History is an architectural wonder that has maintained its original Neoclassical exterior on the front, but houses a spacious, airy, expertly built collection of galleries and immersive learning spaces inside. The architecture of the Natural History Museum is the result of a partnership between the architect Dominic Galicia and the interior designer Tina Periquet. In their conception, the structure is designed around an atrium, referred to in the design statement as The Courtyard, the focal point of which is a huge six-storey-high functional sculpture modeled after DNA, the basic building block of life. In general, Galicia refers to the pattern as The Tree of Life.
National Museum of Natural History is consists of Botany, Geology and Zoology.
Botany
The museum itself houses the largest number of national repository of plant collection in the Philippines. The PNH (Philippine National Herbarium) plant collections are the result of the compilation of activities in the country in the last century, as well as the exchange of programs with other herbaria, both here and overseas. Several of the early collections dating back to the late 18th and 19th centuries are still in existence.
Geology
One of the primary duties of the Geology Division of the National Museum is to carry out basic and systematic studies on Petrology, Mineralogy and Paleontology with the goal of disseminating information and fostering the growth of natural sciences. It also aims to create and maintain an adequate reference collection of philippine rocks , minerals and fossils by means of collection, exchange or donation.
Zoology
The Philippine archipelago shelters a large number of land and water animals, mostly found nowhere else. A number of these distinct animals are already severely threatened and are facing extinction while a few are already extinct. In order to maintain a record of the Philippine wildlife, the National Museum keeps a large collection of these animal specimens from all over the archipelago. These animal specimens, which had been collected in the last century, had become an important part of the natural history of the Philippines.
It's a best place to see preserve animals and plants that the museum taken care of. Its also a beautiful museum because of it's achitectural design.
National Planetarium
I haven't see the last museum that I will showcase to you but as the name of it. Its primary purpose is to disseminate astronomical knowledge through planetary displays, seminars, experiments, exhibits and actual celestial observations. The special aspect of the Planetarium is the true-to - life projection of celestial bodies that catches the curiosity and the imagination of viewers. The concept of establishing a modern Planetarium in Manila was developed in the 1970s by the former Director of the National Museum, Godofredo Alcasid Sr., with the help of Mr. Maximo P. Sacro, Jr. of the Philippine Weather Office (now PAGASA) and one of the founders of the Philippine Astronomical Society (PAS).
Rules and regulations
Bags that is smaller than a short bond paper are allowed but bigger than that should be deposited to the baggage counter.
Other things like umbrellas are should be deposited in the baggage counter.
It is not allowed to bring foods and drinks inside the museums.
Wearing of hats, caps, bonnets are not allowed.
Touching and leaning on the displays are not allowed.
Taking photos without flash.
Taking videos is not allowed.
Tripods and monopods are prohibited.
Wacky and not appropriate poses are not allowed.
Vices are not allowed.
Security personnel are roaming around the museums to secure that everyone are following the guidelines and to ensure the safety of the things inside the museums.
