via Spot.ph, 29 May 2023: The recent devastating fire at the Manila Central Post Office raises concerns about the preparedness of heritage structures and the need for preventive conservation to protect our cultural properties and tangible history, while the National Museum of the Philippines implements various disaster preparedness measures including training, monitoring, and equipping museum buildings with fire suppression systems.
The National Museum of the Philippines is in charge of national museums all over the Philippines, including the Angono Binangonan Petroglyphs in Rizal, Tabon Caves Site Museum in Palawan, Bicol Regional Museum in Albay, and so forth. Of course, this includes the trifecta of central museums in Manila City: the National Museum of Anthropology, the National Museum of Natural History, and the National Museum of Fine Arts.
Suffice it to say, this network of central museums, regional museums, and site museums hold our country’s ethnographic, anthropological, archaeological, and visual arts collections that reflect our culture and history. The National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) is mandated to not only promote and develop our national reference collections, but also—at the basic level—make sure that our cultural properties are kept safe.
Source: National Museum of the Philippines Fire Prevention Safety
