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Balik Sorsogon presents...
The Sorsogon Provincial Museum and Heritage Center

The Museum

"The Sorsoganon’s pride of culture"

by Reynaldo Jamoralin

Article Contents:

  1. Our Culture and Heritage
  2. Local cultural organizations behind the Museum
  3. The Officers and Members of the Sorsogon Museum and Heritage Center, Inc.
  4. The Museum's Features
  5. Museum Activities

Finding our way through our Culture and Heritage...

            This is the very reason why the different cultural organizations of Sorsogon came together to form the Sorsogon Museum and Heritage Center, Inc. precisely to establish the Sorsogon Provincial Museum and Heritage Center that will provide the Sorsoganons themselves and the visitors with a thread through which to trace our material culture and heritage. The origin of the name Sorsogon, after all, is, in the vernacular, "sosogon", "solsogon" or "sogsogon", meaning, "to trace".

            The building itself, which used to be the Sorsogon Provincial Hospital building, is considered a local historical landmark and heritage structure, or built heritage, having been constructed during the American colonization, together with the imposing Provincial Capitol building, or during the years 1916 to 1920.

            The building will be restored to its original state. There will be no major alterations, except in the interior divisions or partitions for the different sections of the museum. The basic concept is adaptive re-use of a heritage structure which will be preserved and conserved. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts, National Historical Institute, and the National Museum itself are assisting us in this project.

            The Sorsogon Provincial Government has already officially turned-over the heritage building to the Sorsogon Museum & Heritage Center, Inc. for perpetual use as a museum, under a Memorandum of Agreement.

Local cultural organizations

  1. Kasanggayahan Foundation, Inc.
  2. Sorsogon Arts Council, Inc.
  3. Sorsogon Provincial Tourism Council, Inc.
  4. Sorsogon Heritage Society, Inc.
  5. Balik Sorsogon Associations in America

Who are the people behind the project?

  1. Msgr. Francisco P. Monje, Chairperson (Kasanggayahan Foundation, Inc.)
  2. Loida Nicolas-Lewis, Vice-Chairperson (Balik Sorsogon Associations in America)
  3. Reynaldo T. Jamoralin, Secretary (Sorsogon Arts Council, Inc.)
  4. Milagros Z. Duana, Treasurer (Sorsogon Provincial Tourism Council, Inc.)
  5. Teresita N. Borromeo, Auditor (Academe)
  6. Eugenia D. Apostol, Member (Sorsogon Heritage Society, Inc.)
  7. Cecilia H. Duran, Member (Sorsogon Provincial Tourism Council, Inc.
  8. Minda D. Gerona, Member (Sorsogon Arts Council, Inc.)
  9. Edwin Hamor, Member (Kasanggayahan Foundation, Inc.)
  10. Macario L. Jeresano, Jr., Member (Balik Sorsogon Associations in America)
  11. Stephen Henry Totanes, Member (Sorsogon Heritage Society, Inc.)
  12. Gov. Raul R. Lee, Ex-Officio Member (Government Representative)
  13. Mayor Sally A. Lee, Ex-Officio Member (Government Representative)

What are the features of the museum?

  1. Museum Administration/Information Office
  2. Provincial Tourism Office
  3. Exhibition areas for Sorsogon artifacts, relics and memorabilia
  4. Sorsogon folkarts and crafts exhibition area
  5. Ecclesiastical/Church artifacts & reliquary exhibition area
  6. Visual Arts gallery
  7. Bikoliana Library
  8. Audio/Video/Music Room
  9. Function room/performance hall for conferences, lectures, chamber music, or experimental theater
  10. Café & souvenir shop
  11. Dormitory for visiting lecturers and artists

What activities are offered by the Museum?

  1. Guided tours specially geared for children’s and students’ groups
  2. As a true “living museum” – demonstrations by local expert artisans and craftsmen on how local traditional arts and crafts are crafted, made and produced
  3. As a repository of “living traditions” – shows, demonstrations, exhibitions, lectures by local folk artists of local traditional or folk art forms in literature, music, dance, theater, visual arts and architecture
  4. Arts exhibitions
  5. Special exhibitions of new discoveries. finds or indigenous craft, etc.
  6. Lectures, seminars and workshops on local history, arts and culture
  7. Publications
  8. Historical and Cultural research facilities/opportunities
  9. Museum souvenir shop
  10. Cafeteria services

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AND HERITAGE CENTER!

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Sorsogon Provincial Capitol Compound

Rizal St., Sorsogon City
Philippines 4700
e-mail address: sorsogonmuseum@yahoo.com.ph
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Fax No: (056) 211-1573

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