Employees want National Museum execs ousted
By Tina G. Santos
Curators and employees of the National Museum are calling for the resignation of the institution’s top two executives over alleged unpaid benefits, harassment and oppression.
Curators and employees of the National Museum are calling for the resignation of the institution’s top two executives over alleged unpaid benefits, harassment and oppression.
The sciences, both human and applied, are picking up from where oral traditions left off in explaining lingering questions over the practice of mummification in Benguet. But scholars and experts still differ over several key aspects of a practice that has been extinct for centuries. For instance, the jury is still out on the [...]
With a P500-million budget, the government is set to “retrofit” the old Department of Tourism (DOT) building in Rizal Park as an extension facility of the National Museum, the country’s repository of its natural and cultural heritage.
The National Museum located on Padre Burgos Drive in Manila was established in October 1901. Originally named the Insular Museum of Ethnology, Natural History and Commerce, it is tasked with the preservation and protection of cultural properties for safekeeping.
Only the Civil Service Commission (CSC) may resolve questions on appointments to the National Museum, according to the chairman of the institution’s board of trustees.
The National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) is opening its Manila galleries free to the public this whole month, but its museum employees have been prohibited from speaking to the media on controversies hounding the cultural institution.
Quezon Gov. David Suarez called on National Museum officials to continue exploring archaeological sites in Bondoc Peninsula following the discovery of a 1,000-year-old village and an ancient burial ground in the limestone Mount Kamhantik in Mulanay town.
Curators and employees of the National Museum have pointed to their top two executives as the ones to blame for the decay of the clothes and shoe collection of former First Lady Imelda Marcos.
The decaying condition of the clothes and other personal effects in the National Museum of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, reflects the “confiscatory policy” of the administrations that seized the Marcos properties “without purpose,” said Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Archeologists on Friday confirmed they had discovered a thousand-year-old cemetery of rock coffins in a rainforest, but that tomb raiders had found it decades earlier and stolen precious artifacts.
It was vintage Gwendolyn F. Garcia that everyone saw last Monday as she led the dismantling of illegal structures that had spoiled the once-beautiful vista of Kawasan Falls. Before this, she already showed how far she would go should anyone spoil the province’s natural heritage. In Malapascua a few months before the 2010 elections, she [...]
The National Museum has asked the Roxas City government to declare a shipwreck area off the coast of Capiz’s capital a cultural and heritage site to help prevent the looting of artifacts, some dating to the 14th century.
