20
Jan

The trip to the museums

   Posted by: michy   in General

Alright, I mentioned that Ponsing and I are going to visit some museums yesterday.  And so, our first stop is the museum in USP.  When he mentioned this museum, I then remembered that I saw it on tv and so I was pretty excited to go there.  However, we were not able to get into the museum for it’s closed and they said that we need to setup an appointment.  Wow, I didn’t know that appointments are needed to see artifacts!  Although, I wasn’t really sure if I just missed the part about setting up appointments when I saw it on TV but the point there is how can you call it public when you need to setup an appointment.  Am I naive or what?  But anyway, so as not to ruin our day, we went to the Jose Rizal Library and Museum in Fuente but to our dismay, the museum has been closed for renovation for three years now.   Whoah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  These are just two of the many listed museums in Cebu but I am a bit worried for if the majority of the museums here in Cebu are closed then there is a great possibility that there is a very small population who are interested in knowing their history in the Philippines.  And I just realized that we don’t even have a museum in my hometown itself.  OMG!  I don’t know about you but I really find that alarming.  And it’s ashame that we do not have a museum there for I think our town has a great history and culture.  If you go there, you will meet people with different ancestry.  You will meet people who have ancestries from Itas, Chinese to Spaniards which means that there had been a lot of people who went and settled there.  And am afraid that a lot of kids there doesn’t even know how our town became the capital city of Samar since I don’t know when, when it became a city just last year.

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