2000 Gawad Alab ng Haraya Awardee

(Alab ng Haraya Awards)

The Negros Museum
Negros Occidental - http://www.negrosmuseum.freewebspace.com

The Negros Museum represents more than its collection of Filipiniana. At its core are the stories of a people whose consciousness and collective memories go back hundreds of years. Housed in the grand neo-classic structure that is the former Provincial Capitol Building, the Negros Museum presents in a capsule the bounty that is the history, art, and culture of the people of the Negros Island. Through room upon room of art and artifacts, the museum chronicles the lives of the Negrenses, from the opulence characteristic of the heyday of the plantation hacendero to the austerity that marked the years after the collapse of the sugar industry.

Other than the exhibitions and displays that have made it a major tourist destination in the region, the museum initiates other exceptional projects. Through its Artist Discovery Series and Artist Livelihood Program, local, undiscovered artists and craftsmen gain the immensely valuable opportunity to mount exhibits as well as sell their work at the museum. The museum, in addition, serves as a guide to the artists, helping them from conceptualization to the exhibit to the trade of their work.

For the visiting Negrense child, the museum offers

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