My Manila

"Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff." ~William Thorsell, past Director & CEO of t...

"The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound." ~Marsh...

"Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels." ~He...

"A closed mouth catches no flies." ~ Miguel de Cervantes Though whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), known locally as butandin...

"Robots have been in the deepest oceans, to Mars… but your living room is the final frontier." ~ Cynthia Brezeal ScD, Direct...

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million." ~ Walt Streightiff The Mind Muse...

As I promised, here is the Heritage Room of the Ateneo de Manila Grade School where yesterday's mural is located. The room displays me...

Ever wonder what an underwater archeological dig looks like? This diorama at the Museum of the Filipino People gives us a glimpse. The exc...

One of the places we visited in Bangkok last November was the Jim Thompson House . James Harrison Wilson Thompson was an American soldier wh...

The Jose Rizal museum inside Fort Santiago in Intramuros has a replica of the prison cell where the Philippine national hero was incarcer...

The museum inside Fort Santiago in Intramuros dedicated to Philippine national hero Jose Rizal has one of the oldest existing copies of h...

Inside Fort Santiago in Intramuros is a small museum dedicated to Philippine national hero Jose Rizal , who was imprisoned in the fort ju...

The Ayala Museum 's very elegant interpretation of the traditional Filipino parol , or Star of Bethlehem.

From May 12 to 24, my husband and I went on a road trip through the Central Luzon and Ilocos Regions, stopping at cities and towns that we...

The museum of the Cultural Center of the Philippines has a permanent exhibit showcasing traditional Asian musical instruments.

Philippine National Artist for Visual Arts Benedicto Cabrera , BenCab, settled in Baguio City in 1986 after living in London since 1969. Hi...

From the road, the ancestral house of the Legarda family looks like any of the few 1930s houses in Manila that survived World War II—though ...

As I mentioned at the start of this series about the ancestral home of the Legarda family, the house is now also a fine dining restaurant ca...

An all-white bedroom in the ancestral home of the Legarda family displays the wedding gown of one of Alejandro and Ramona's daughters. I...

With my fascination for lamps and lighting fixtures, a lamp was bound to catch my eye in the 1937 home of Alejandro and Ramona Legarda. I ju...