Reaction Paper: Ayala and National Museum Essay

When we visited these museums, National Museum and the Ayala Museum, both piddle shown the prosperity of our history and assimilation. The museums nurse shown us why and how Philippines go beyond during that time. The museums nominate an abundant role in nourishing us Filipinos the knightly of our history and culture. Of course, in a sense of reminding us what our heroes have do in order to give us the freedom and how our ancestors lived. In my opinion, the museums have shown the importance of the Philippine history. They want us to be conscious around how our ancestors prospered and how much wealth our ancestors were in culture and at the same time, suffered.At the Ayala museum, we have seen many a(prenominal) gold objects, ceramics, and artifacts which were kept for us to see how our ancestors in pre- colonial period lived and their culture and beliefs before. Our ancestors somehow have similarities to the beliefs of the Egyptians wherein, they believed in later on life. We saying masks wherein the museum explained that it was used to cover holes of a dead person so that no some other souls will enter the body.Filipinos before already have the belief that our body was the temple of the soul. Other gold objects represents the ranks in the fraternity just like what we saw in the said museum that was displayed. The ceramics have shown how our ancestors traded crafts from other countries particularly in China and how our country made good contacts to them. These revealed how resplendent our culture was before as strong as the status of the Filipinos.The fabrics displayed at the Ayala museum have shown us how Filipinos before evolved in terms of cultural aspects because of the colonisation that occurred. The paintings showed the history in an artistic way. The artworks I remembered were the paintings of Juan Luna and Carlos Botong Francisco. Their paintings were based on what they saw in our history.Especially, in the paintings of Carlos which I th ink I really apprehended because of the video clip theyve done to make the paintings become alive. These artworks emphasized the events that happened in the past and portrayed the Philippines. Unfortunately, I wasnt that lucky to get a chance to contemplate each of the paintings. One thing I observe that the paintings as what I have said, were truly describes our history and as well as our identity as a Filipinos.Captivating dioramas also helped us to really go steady and visualize our past. It was made pieces by pieces and the materials were very detailed. It has a total of 60 dioramas and it was arranged in sequence which helped us to understand what really happened. The dioramas gave me the feeling as the part of the history as if I was there in the actual event.Our visit in these museums, I arse actually say that it helped me to reflect my identity as a Filipino citizen. In our present community, it seems that our history was not being perished anymore. Some didnt really car e about our history and culture anymore.Our beliefs, our natives, ancestors and many things related to on what we are as a Filipino. Its the fact that many of us didnt appreciate what we are as a Filipino. Nowadays, were too obsessed in the culture of other countries which leads in forgetting our own. For me, as a Filipino, by the help of these museums strengthen my identity as a Filipino. Why? It is because these museums represents how our ancestors bravely fought which were in the way to our liberty and how wealth our culture was before.