The Museum Manila: Relive Ancient History

“Love is inseparable from knowledge.”

- Macarius of Egypt

 

The Museum Manila is both an indoor and outdoor museum showcasing replicas of Greek gods and goddesses, royalties, pharaohs, warriors, and relics from ancient civilizations of Greece, China, and Egypt. It also features the art works and inventions of Renaissance Master genius, Leonardo da Vinci.

 

 

A walk in the history of time teaches us why the past never made it to the present. It shows us that life becomes easier when we stop waging war and harming others. We become happier if early on in life, we stop waiting and expecting, love ourselves more, and just accept an apology we think we deserved but never got.

 

The Museum Manila

CCP Complex, Boom na Boom

Pasay City

Museo Pambata: Children’s Playground

It’s never too late to be what you might have been. So today I decided to be a kid again and visit the place I should have been when I was still in kindergarten or elementary – the Museo Pambata.

 

 

Opened in 1994, the museum is located in the former Manila Elks Club building, built in 1911, along Roxas Boulevard corner Katigbak Drive. It was founded by Estefania Aldaba-Lim and Nina Lim-Yuson who envisioned an alternative learning for children, specially for those who have no access to formal education. Unlike traditional  and conventional museums where natural, artistic, historical, and scientific objects and artifacts are displayed behind glass shelves only to be admired but not touched, Museo features hands-on exhibits that encourage children to explore, get a little wild and discover various concepts, facts and trivia while they play.

 

Nakakatuwa lang kasi, I no longer have strict parents to watch over and restrain me ano man ang gusto kong gawin hehe.

White Huey helicopter

 

Believe that even a butanding could fly

There’s always a fire within me

 

A Spanish galleon replica

 

The Filipino Heroes’ Hall

 

A hero could be a child intent on making the world a better place

 

Binondo church scale model

Tranvia was one of the means of transportation during early American period

Glowing jellyfishes

He who plants a tree, plants hope

Health is a relationship between you and your body

Be your own Captain Planet – protect and save the environment

 

Miss Big Mouth can swallow the truth and me whole

  

Even though reality is always catching up with me,  I won’t let it take away my inner child.

Manila Ocean Park and Hotel H20

"My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, 
and the heart of the ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Manila Ocean Park is the Philippines’ first world-class marine theme park with over 5,000 varieties of marine creatures from around 300 species. It has an aqua-themed Hotel H20, which offers guests a chance to literally sleep with the fishes.

Relax fishes, I promise not to eat you today.

Hotel H20 lobby

Moonlight Bar

Makan-Makan Asian Food Village

The Oceanarium

School of fish

White-spotted bamboo shark eggs

Moon jellies exhibit

Lion fish

Arwanas

  

Reef stonefish

Clown fishes

Sea nettle jelly fish

School of jackfish

nag-papa-cute na shovelnose guitarfish

Fish spa, nakakakiliti

Dancing sea fairies

Club H20 Lounge

Aqua Room

The world’s most breathtaking wilderness really lies beneath the surface.

The Mind Museum, Taguig

Sometimes, I wish I could read everybody’s mind so I can find out how people feel about me. But unfortunately, only Professor X has such power. And he’s just some by-product of someone else’s wild imagination.

Maybe being powerless was the reason why you are one of the very few people I granted passage into my life. You’ve seen every atom of my dreams catching up with my reality. You’ve walked upon my grayest alley until my very last shabby corner. But there among the rubbish, you stayed, and cultivated a life. You told me things won’t always be beautiful, and I should find comfort in it. I wish I could just believe that.

One day I will stop asking questions. But maybe not now. In this vast universe, enigmas are scattered everywhere like they belong nowhere. But you…  you are always somewhere in my mind.