The University of Santo Tomas Museum, the oldest existing museum in the Philippines, started as a "Gabinete de Fisica," an observation room of mineral, botany and biology collections in the 17th century. Under the old Spanish educational law the collections were used as classroom materials for Medicine and Pharmacy and other Science courses.
The university is proud of the museum’s vast collection. Preserved for over three hundred years in the Main Building, the collections then grew with the inclusion of significant cultural objects and artifacts.
One of the latest attraction here at the UST Museum and where you will see the finest and largest crucified Christ made of one piece of ivory is located at the Hall of the Philippine Religious Images. The whole collection of what began as religious works belongs to a unique form of art that shows not only artistic and technical skill, but more so, the enthusiasm and spirit with which the Christian Faith was accepted by the Filipinos.
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The museum remounted a 2004 exhibit, project of Rev. Fr. Antonio Aureada about the life and travels of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The exhibit informally opened on July 8 and will run until August 30, 2014. Welcome freshmen!
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SUPPORT THE MUSEUM
The preservation of the UST Museum’s collections from the ravages of time can only be made possible with the help of our generous friends and benefactors who share our vision and concern for our national treasures.
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