Museum & Art Gallery

Altro Mondo

Altro Mondo

As one of Manila’s art haven, Altro Mondo lets you explore the world of contemporary art.     Established in 2010, Altro Mondo is a commercial art gallery which exhibits contemporary art from the Philippines and abroad. It has served as an exhibition venue of artworks presented by various artists, including young and fresh ones, and world-renowned artists alike.   CLICK: PAINTINGS by Marc Gaba   Altro Mondo is a place where artists, curators, enthusiasts, writers, and critics gather. It collaborates with outstanding artists in the industry, to provide a space where they can showcase the different works that they want to show to people. It’s a great place to […]
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  • Makati
  • Greenbelt
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    • Pineapple Lab

    Pineapple Lab

      Love going to art galleries? Try visiting Pineapple Lab located along Palma street in Poblacion, Makati. It is a cultural center, and art and photography gallery that showcases works from various local artists. They regularly hold exhibits, making them a go-to spot for many artists and art lovers.     Aside from art exhibits, Pineapple Lab also holds other kinds of event, such as plays, film-viewing, workshops, etc. Currently, well-known Filipino performance artist Carlos Celdran is holding his one-man show called Livin’ La Vida Imelda at Pineapple Lab. Don’t miss any of their upcoming events. Check the schedule on their wesbite: http://www.pineapplelab.ph/   Photos via Pineapple Lab Facebook Also read: […]
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  • Makati
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    • Miracle Art Happyworld Museum: A Happy New Kind of Museum

    Miracle Art Happyworld Museum: A Happy New Kind of Museum

    Welcome to the age of 3D Art! Miracle Art Happyworld Museum allows visitors to take unlimited pictures. Take selfies and groufies with the colorful 3D paintings. You can follow the guide pictures or create your own poses. This museum is definitely for the whole family.   Strike a pose and smile for the camera!   Interactive art museums are becoming more and more popular. It has allowed art to reach a bigger audience. Museum goers enjoy pretending to be part of the paintings. Miracle Art Happyworld Museum makes it easier for everyone to have this experience. They have put up several branches nationwide. Each branch has around 20 3D paintings […]
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  • Cavite
  • Museum & Art Gallery
    • Yuchengco Museum

    Yuchengco Museum

    Behold visual artistry spanning three centuries at the Yuchengco Museum as it exhibits the private collections of RCBC Chairman Alfonso T. Yuchengco. Showcased here is a vast anthology of visual art works from the 19th century to the present with the finest international as well as local, cultural, historical, and design exhibits and programs. Aimed at fostering art appreciation among the public, the museum first opened its doors in 2005 and has since attracted visitors as it brought fine arts near them, right at the heart of Makati City. Tony Gonzales and Tes Pasola Site-specific installation (recycled pulp) Variable measurements 2014 Its collections include the Masters Gallery that highlights, among […]
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  • Makati
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    • CCP Museum of Philippine Culture

    CCP Museum of Philippine Culture

    If you are within the vicinity of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex or you’re in the area to see a theater or art show and have some time to spare, a good place worth spending it in is the Museum of Philippine Culture. Located at the fourth floor of CCP Main Building, the small museum, referred to as Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino in the vernacular, houses life-size tableaux of various aspects of Filipino life, culture, ceremonies, and beliefs. The place and the displays are old, but guests in groups will appreciate the guided tour. Visitors may also borrow a guide from the front desk. The museum is also […]
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  • Pasay
  • Museum & Art Gallery
    • Museum of a History of Ideas

    Museum of a History of Ideas

    A haven in the heart of the busy capital, the UP Manila Museum of a History of Ideas chronicles the past of the national university in a modern way. Emerging from the throes of centuries of Spanish rule and years of Philippine-American war, the University of the Philippines was born in 1908 to be at the forefront of progressive idea generation, testing, and application. In 7 creatively-curated sections, the museum presents the history of UP through the ideas that it fostered throughout the years. An enlarged image of Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, welcomes guests to the museum. A partiality to UP’s contribution to medicine and affiliated fields […]
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  • Ermita
  • Manila
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    • Yexel’s Toy Museum

    Yexel’s Toy Museum

    While tucked inside a quiet residential village in Las Piñas, Yexel’s Toy Museum is hard to miss. The stark yellow building is guaranteed to turn heads, and even the most stoic of children wouldn’t be able to resist the promising, beckoning Lego-like facade. – Yexel’s Toy Museum – Yexel Sebastian, the dedicated full-time toy collector and curator behind the museum, has amassed around 7,000 action figures and 100 life-sized figures (that his team created themselves) in the museum. While he has sleek, enviable 1/6th-scale Batmobiles by Hot Toys and even the rare broken sword Shards of Narsil from Lord of the Rings, he also displays obscure Disney toys that came […]
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  • Las Piñas
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    • Balay Negrense in Silay City

    Balay Negrense in Silay City

    The Balay Negrense, also known as the Victor Gaston Ancestral House, is an antiques museum in Silay City that showcases the lifestyle of a late 19th-century Negrense sugar baron. – Balay Negrense exterior – In the 1890s, Don Victor Fernandez Gaston, a sugar baron whose family revolutionized the sugar-planting techniques in Negros, commissioned the construction of Balay Negrense for himself and his twelve children. Upon its completion in 1901, the Gaston house was one of the largest homes on the island. After Don Gaston’s death in 1927 the house eventually passed to his children, and was later vacated to fall into disrepair. Eventually the remaining heirs of the Gaston family […]
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  • Negros
  • Museum & Art Gallery
    • Balaw-Balaw

    Balaw-Balaw

    Balaw-Balaw Restaurant and Folk Art Gallery, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Perdigon Vocalan, is a restaurant-art gallery found in the Art Capital of the Philippines, Angono in Rizal. Mrs. Luzvimin Vocalan, owner Balaw-balaw is the name of the dipping sauce from Angono that is made of fermented rice, shrimps, and bamboo shoots. It offers authentic Filipino cooking as well as popular exotic foods, which many customers have tried. Aside from that, they also display a wide collection of paintings, sculptures and paper mache. This restaurant-gallery has been feature in various local and international shows, including Bizarre Food hosted by Andrew Zimmern. Address: 16 Doña Justa Subd. Ph. I Angono, Rizal […]
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  • Rizal
  • Museum & Art Gallery