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Museo Iloilo is a provincial museum located near the Iloilo Provincial Capitol in Iloilo City, Philippines. It is the first government-sponsored museum in the Philippines outside of Metro Manila. The museum houses a collection of Iloilo's cultural heritage.
Museo Iloilo’s permanent exhibit covers the cultural history of Western Visayas from prehistory to contemporary history. Inside is the carbon-q4 dated fossils, the swords and spears of the Mondo tribe of Panay, and the permanent exhibit showing an Ati family.
Jun 6, 2023 · Museo Iloilo stands as the beacon of Iloilo arts and culture for the last 52 years. Many of Iloilo’s big names in fine arts traced their humble beginnings at the Museo and plenty of art hobbyists acquired training from the annual summer arts workshop organized by the museum management.
Jan 29, 2014 · Iloilo has always prided itself in the rich cultural heritage that helped shape the province from its humble beginnings to the thriving and progressive community it is today, and this same heritage has been carefully and vigorously preserved by Museo Iloilo, the repository of the province's history.
Museo Iloilo, located on Bonifacio Drive in Iloilo City Proper, is the country's first government-sponsored museum outside of Metro Manila. Sergio Penasales, an Ilonggo architect, designed the museum building.
The Museo Iloilo was conceived by the Ministry of Tourism in the late 1960s to spur tourism development in the Western Visayas region. To encourage the private sector to get involved with its program of activities, the ministry leased the Museo Iloilo to the Iloilo Cultural Research Foundation, Inc. (ICRFI) for 25 years.
Jun 23, 2011 · Considered as one of the many remarkable museums in the Philippines, the Museo Iloilo boasts its displays as one of the riches in historical value. It is a public museum in Iloilo now supervised by the Iloilo Cultural Research Foundation, Inc.
