via BusinessWorld Online, 30 March 2022: This travelling exhibition on Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world is at the National Museum of the Philippines this year.
In line with the quincentennial commemoration of the voyage, the National Museum of the Philippines, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in Manila, presents the traveling exhibition, “First Journey Around the World” at Galleries 25 and 26 at the National Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibit highlights details of the Magellan-Elcano expedition with documents, artifacts, and objects.
Launched in 2019, the original and unabridged exhibition was on view at the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain. The Archivo General is a treasure trove of documents on the ages of discovery, conquest, and colonial administration across the whole of the Spanish Empire, including the Philippines.
“In the context of the world, the expedition revolutionized the knowledge, education, and trade of the world,” Luis Morales Fernandez, the First Secretary of the Embassy of Spain, said at the exhibit’s press launch on March 21.
