MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES MONTH 2019. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), partners with the Museo De La Salle for the South Luzon launch of Museums and Galleries Month Celebration 2019, during the press conference at De La Salle University in Dasmariñas, Cavite on Tuesday (Sept. 25, 2019). In photo are resource speakers (seated, from left) National Committee on Art Galleries head John Delan Robillos, NCCA Commissioner on Cultural Heritage Fr. Harold Rentoria, OSA; and National Committee on Museums vice head and Museo De La Salle Director Cecille Torrevillas-Gelicame. (PNA photo by Gladys S. Pino)
DASMARIǸAS CITY, Cavite - The National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) is encouraging members of the South Luzon Association of Museums (SLAMs) to come up with activities all year round aside from the month-long celebration of the Museum and Galleries Month (MGM) in October.
Fr. Harold Rentoria, OSA, NCCA Commissioner on Cultural Heritage, made the call when asked for ways to "level" up the impact of the MGM 2019 celebration during the South Luzon kick-off held at the College of Tourism and Hospitality Management (CTHM) of the De La Salle University campus here on Tuesday.
"Our encouragement is that the celebration should not only be on the month of October domesticated month, but it should be a year-long celebration," Rentoria said.
The Museums and Galleries Month (MGM) is observed every month of October by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 798, s. 1991.
For some time, the NCCA has put the national celebration on hold and revived it anew this year to bring back the purpose of galleries and museums to the consciousness of the Filipino people.
"This is what we at the NCCA is really pushing - that you visit museums because it reminds us of our past, of who we are," Rentoria added.
Holding activities regularly will continue the advocacy to promote awareness, and also help in educating the people of what museums and galleries are all about.
"It educates us of who we are and it will strengthen our identity as Filipinos," said Rentoria.
This year's nationwide celebration, themed "Building the Nation, One Exhibit at a time" acknowledges the roles of museums and galleries as instruments in creating national consciousness for Filipinos. There will be separate kick-off ceremonies in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
The NCCA, through its National Committee on Museums (NCCA-NCOM), has partnered with Museo De La Salle, an in-campus museum of DLSU here, for the South Luzon launch.
Joining Rentoria in the panel of resource speakers during the launch were National Committee on Art Galleries Head John Delan Robillos, and Cecille Torrevillas-Gelicame, National Committee on Museums vice head and Museo De La Salle Director. (PNA)
