The Museum Manila; Bringing the journey closer.

    " Study the past if you would define the future."

   -Confucius

     Yes, it's weekend again and everyone is thinking where to spend their offs productively. Work gets boring  specially if everything becomes a routine and sometimes all we need are few brain teasers to lubricate those screws in our heads. lol (  Feeling blunt doing same thing everyday 0_0* )

     My friend Cath was so ready to go out.  It  took us a while to decide where and what to do until we came across  (suke nyahhh... :p) in Metrodeal offering a discounted  day pass at The Manila Museum for only 299 php instead of  of 350 php.  The photos featured were stunning! She was like, " Really,did i just saw a photo of  the Collosi  in Egypt? ". We were intrigued what else are  inside the museum and without further ado we purchased the discounted voucher.

     We took the  MRT from Ortigas and get off  at Taft Station and then took a cab to The Manila Museum to maximize our precious time. It's just next to Wensha Pasay inside BOOM na BOOm in CCP Complex behind Star City.

   

  

      Charrrrran..here we are! wohooo! It's  smaller  than we expected but that wont stop the thrill for us seeing those ancient artifacts.  Manila Museum officially opened  its door to the public on July 13, 2013. It operates from Monday - Sunday , 9:00 a.m - 6:00 pm. All replicas were crafted by Filipino artist  and to ensure "learning", each gallery has its own tour guides. It is divided into four galleries  from ancient China, Egypt, Greece and Leonardo Da Vinci's obra maestra , sketches and inventions .



Chinese gallery

                   Glazed Ceramics

An ancient Chinese  calculating tool  "abacus" developed around  3000BC.

Terracotta Warriors sculpted and buried with China's first emperor to  protect him in his afterlife.

The chariot.

Forbidden City of  China.

Egyptian Gallery


                                

Collosi of Memnon.

The bust of Nefertiti wife of  Pharaoh Akhenaten.

                   

To the Egyptians, frog symbolizes  life and fertility.

Greek Gallery


                                        

The  life size figures of the Greek Mythology characters :  Zeus, Medusa, Hercules and Poseidon.

The Greek's wrestling olympians.

                                            

A replica of an  amphora designed pot depicting Greeks' red-figure pottery technique.

The cheerful tour guides from Greek and Egyptian galleries.

Leonardo Da Vinci's Gallery

    

Da Vinci's  mysterious masterpiece , Mona Lisa.

 

Da Vinci's spring driven Automobile and behind is the famous  Last Supper.

No it's not a mummy, but a diving suit.

A collection of  Da Vinci's practical inventions and  his Human Anatomy observations .

War machines.

     There are more to see inside! See it for yourself, it's fun to at least have an idea how it goes at the other side of the world, and be inspired while appreciating the progress of  civilization. This is an effective tool for students to enhance what they had theoretically learned from the school.

     The time flew fast, while exchanging thoughts with our tour guides. It was overwhelming to absorb how Da Vinci maximized his talents from human anatomy to war machines. Just by the thought of it, I feel like i need to undergo a brain enhancement program. LOL.


     There's a photo booth at the EXIT  area, where you can dress up like goddesses and pose like a pro as a souvenir  lol. A hard copy will cost you 150.00 php and 50.00 for a soft copy. That's all this time, shoot!  my friend is bugging me we have to leave. I should go now! wohooo.. ;)





For Inquiries, please call:  (02) 823 2688
CCP  Complex, Boom na Boom, 1300 Pasay City, Philippines

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