By the Artesdelasfilipinas Research Team Introduction to the Murillo Velarde Map The Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Islas Filipinas of 1734, more commonly known as the Murillo Velarde map, is considered the first comprehensive and scientifically grounded map of the Philippine archipelago....

GINTO A GOLDEN HERITAGE FROM OUR FILIPINO ANCESTOR March 2016–This exhibit feature ancient ornaments crafted by our Filipino ancestor from 700 to 1,200 years ago. These form part of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Pre-Hispanic Gold Collection. The illustration that depict how these exquisite gold...

March 2015--When the Spaniards arrived in the Philippines with sword and cross in hand some four centuries ago, they brought with them  the art of religious image-making. The first “santo” on Philippine soil was a small wooden image of the Infant Jesus, presented by the explorer Ferdinand...

September 2012--The Mangyan tribe has been included in the history of Mindoro. Spaniards have long documented the life of the Mangyan people. However, much is still to be learned from the culture of one of the Philippines’ richest ethnic group. Mangyan refers to the Philippine ethnic group living...

"…the work of an artist and master potter."--Robert Fox 27th April 1995—I was 11 years old when I visited the National Museum -- the repository of our cultural, natural and historical heritage. I remembered the majesty of climbing those steps and walking past the Neo-classical Roman columns...

The Hapao bul-ul is normally carved in a standing position. Its knees are slightly flexed with its hands resting on the kneecaps. Each year, for about a century now, the bul-uls real life family-- the Bumatangs of Magoc, Hungduan, sponsors a village festival in honor of the bul-uls as well as the appeasement...

The beauty that one can exalt in seeing the seemingly never-ending terracing of rice fields, remarkable long-stretching successive lines of rice paddies hand-contoured in several edges of Cordillera mountain is really a historical dictate in our conscience and to the minds of our foreign visitors and...