Life in Colonial Manila: Letter from the Past

Ayala Museum

Object Rewind E05: The History of Body Ornamentation in Philippine Culture

Many societies highly regard physical beauty because it affords a person admiration, privilege, and status. Sometimes the cost of attractiveness is bodily pain. What did Filipinos have to bear...

Ayala Museum

Filipino-Chinese grocery

Itinerant Chinese buyers of scrap iron, empty containers, and waste paper who were fixtures on the streets before the war became rice dealers, trade financiers, or proprietors of flourishing...

Filipinas Heritage Library

Manila Reborn

A virtual exhibition featuring photos of destroyed buildings in Manila due to World War II

Filipinas Heritage Library