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When we were a child, our school would engage us in educational field trips every year in various museums and historical walks to learn more about the world around us. Field trip was the happiest and most unforgettable moment of my grade school life. In addition to that, my family would also have side trips at different museums in different parts of Metro Manila and at times, outside it. It was some sort of family bonding at the same time enjoying that we were able to know more about our country’s culture and history.

Zero In Peripheral exhibit is a theme of 5 museums in Manila which is composed of Lopez Memorial Museum, Ayala Museum, Ateneo Art Gallery, Bahay Tsinoy and Museo Pambata. Zero in Periphery is one treasure of knowledge, history and black box of our past that is documented by ordinary people and unknown heroes of the old Philippines.

For most of the people, it is a connotation that museums are only for kids but Zero in Periphery caters also to the “young at hearts”. It is good to have some trivia or nice-to-know facts that you can share your friends that were not taught to us in our formative years in schools.

I salute Zero in Periphery for bringing the biggest crater of Philippine history that was forgotten for centuries. I have gone to Museum Pambata and Ayala Museum and will definitely visit the other 3 museums.

Here’s a teaser for you to indulge yourself with:

Al Manrique’s artwork-Lopez Museum

Convention on the Rights of the Child-Museo Pambata

Potting and Ceramics @ Ayala Museum photo by James bk Seet

Chinese life in the Philippines- Bahay Tsinoy

Poklong Anading photo and lightbox installation - Ateneo Art Gallery

Zero-in is a proud achievement in Philippine museum practice. What evolved through a remarkable confluence of events, personalities, collections and histories has, five years hence, become proof that altruism is alive and well.

Zero In 8: Periphery represents a spectrum of mandates, audiences, acquisitional and educational benchmarks. For more info, contact Fanny San Pedro at 631-2417or visit www.zeroinmuseums.org

Zero-In Exhibition dates
Ayala Museum: The Ring of Fire: The First Southeast Asian Ceramics Festival opens September 21 until October 4, 2009
Ateneo Art Gallery: Beyond Frame: Philippine Photomedia opens on October 1 until December 15, 2009
Lopez Memorial Museum: Deleted Scenes opens November 12, 2009 until January 9, 2010
Bahay Tsinoy: Remembering opens November 12, 2009 until January 9, 2010
Museo Pambata: Invisible Children opens November 26, 2009 until January 5, 2010

Museum address and contact details

Ateneo Art Gallery
Ateneo de Manila University
Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights
Quezon City
Tel. No. 426.6488
Ayala Museum
Makati Avenue corner De la Rosa St. Makati City
Tel. No. 757.7117 to 21
Bahay Tsinoy
Museum of Chinese in Philippine Life
Kaisa-Angelo King Heritage Center
32 Anda corner Cabildo Streets
Intramuros, Manila
Tel. No. 527.6083 / 526.6796
Lopez Memorial Museum
G/F Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue
Ortigas Center, Pasig City
Tel. No. 631.2417 / 635.9545
Museo Pambata
Museo Pambata Foundation Inc.
Roxas Boulevard corner South Drive, Manila
Tel. No. 523.1797 / 523.1798 / 536.0595

For more info and Photo Credits: Azrael Coladilla

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