Discover Philippines’ Colorful Culture At Lakbay Museo In Manila

If there’s a museum we can truly recommend for families to visit while their children are still young, it will be Lakbay Museo. It’s one thing to teach our children our native tongue and our heritage, and it’s another to let them see with their own eyes how colorful and admirable Philippines is with its of food, history and places.

at the museum entrance

There are three ways to enter the museum – via Jeep, airplane, or vinta. You can also wear sarong or ifugao robe (borrowed) to complete the ethnic feel. Each guest is being given a set of 12 chips to use in exchange of food samples inside the museum.

The main aspect that we loved in Lakbay Museo was that the exhibits were all so alive, not in the literal sense, but that the whole place gave us that lively energy as soon as we entered the museum. Unlike in other historical and travel museums with no-touch and be-silent policy, this museum was so interactive and guests are encouraged to experience and touch the exhibits and take lots of photos. It’s also a museum where guests are given chips which you can use to “buy” native foods and delicacies and eat them while on tour.

The museum was not that big and you can tour the whole area in less than two hours, but the experience, we can assure you that it will be one of the best travel tours you can make. It’s a place you can be proud of and be happy to recommend to your foreign friends. But most importantly, it’s a place which locals should be aware of, to see the places that we can’t reach even in our own country, to try the foods from other regions we haven’t tasted before, and to know more about our own history.

The museum helps PWDs, out-of-school youths and senior citizens by letting them be a part of the activities. Guests can sample some of the foods inside the museum.

The food and ingredients all look so real! You’ll have fun playing and posing with the exhibits. Here, posing as fish vendor – tindera ng isda

Play or pose as pork vendor with these realistic meat exhibit!

Pose as barbecue and isaw seller!

Jars and jars of pickled vegetables

Vinegar and lambanog free for tasting

tusok-tusok look so real and appetizing

Just like us,  you will have a grand time looking at the details in each exhibit. The foods look so real! Though we’ve seen better wax figures, we were still amazed with the number and grandieur of the displays in some areas. And you know what, the exhibits in this museum were made from recycled rubber tires, car mats and rubber slippers. That’s what you call Filipino ingenuinity.

We also found out that the museum employ PWDs, out of school youth and locals from the provinces exhibited in the museum. At the entrance, we were welcomed by senior citizens and they danced gracefully some Filipinina numbers. It’s a great advocacy for the museum to help even the seniors to share their talents.

other regional dishes some of them we’ve just seen for the first time

pyesta favorites – lechon! plus other sidings – you can pick any of these to use for your photo

busy eating kwek kwek while the rest of us watch the cultural performances in the background

There is more than a dozen reasons why visiting Lakbay Museo should be in your family’s bucket list this year but one of the firsts we should say is that it’s one of the most fun and educational way to bond together.  The experiences you will share won’t expire and the photos you will take together will be priceless. And as you post those photos in your social media, you will inspire more Filipinos and more people around the world to take a closer a look and find how beautiful this country of ours is.

see the glowing Mt. Mayon

pose with wax figures that look so alive

try playing with the kulintang – a real one

To visit Lakbay Museo:

Address: G/F S Maison, Conrad Manila, Mall of Asia Complex
Opening Hours : 10AM – 10PM
Website : http://www.lakbaymuseo.ph
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lakbaymuseoph