Art and Culture
Entrance is free at these local museums on International Museum Day!
Looking for a place where you can both relieve your stress, spend time with friends or family, and at the same time, expand your horizons? Then take this day as an opportunity to visit local museums which are opening its door to everyone FOR FREE!
In line with the celebration of International Museum Day, some museums announced that they will be waiving their admissions fee so that visitors can fully enjoy their captivating galleries while learning — one of these is the Ayala Museum in Makati City.
In a Facebook post, it said registration will start at 12 noon on Sunday, May 19. Apart from visiting their galleries, the Ayala Museum also offers some activities where people can take part in. These include Story Telling for Kids which will be at 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Art Buffet at 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Of course, food and drinks, as well as shops for educational products, will also be available at the museum.
The Ayala Museum will be open to the public until the end of May for its year-long closure to make way for renovations.
Another museum in Makati City is the Yuchengco Museum which houses the art collection of Ambassador Alfonso T. Yuchengco.
Opening from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, the museum will offer its “awe-inspiring exhibits” from National Artists to Contemporary Prodigies, “from black and white photography to history on our National Hero.”
Hold on tight and keep your feet firmly planted on the ground because there are more museums with free admissions are inside the historic walled city of Intramuros in Manila.
In an Instagram post, the Intramuros Administration, an attached agency of the Department of Tourism (DOT), announced that the entrance is free on Saturday at the Museo De Intramuros, Casa Manila Museum, Destileria Limtuaco Museum, Bahay Tsinoy, and Bagumbayan Light and Sounds Museum.
The free-of-door-charge privilege will still be valid at Casa Manila and Bagumbayan Light and Sounds Museum until Sunday.
A special edition Intramuros Beep card will also be given to the first 100 guests at each museum, the Intramuros Administration said.
Going outside Intramuros, you can go straight to the country’s National Museum (NM), where admission is ALWAYS free.
The NM, in its Facebook announcement, said it will hold on Saturday “free special guided tours, lectures, and fora in its central, regional, area, and site museums to actively reach out and bring the museum closer to the communities it serves.”
Meanwhile, the NM said curators in their flagship museums in Manila will also do a one-hour special guided tour where topics such as architectural arts, built heritage, fine arts, underwater archeology, and geology and paleontology will be discussed.
This year’s theme for International Museum Day will be “Museums as Cultural Hubs: The future of tradition.”
