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Created by: Christian Josh E. Dinoy
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National Museum of Fine Arts

The National Museum of Fine Arts is home to 29 galleries

anfi hallway exhibitions comprising of 19th century
Filipino masters, National Artists, leafiing mofiern painters,
sculptors, anfi printmakers. Also on view are art loans
from other government institutions, organizations, anfi
infiivifiuals.
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Along Padre Burgos Street heading southwest, the monumental Old Legislative
Building is presently the National Museum of Fine Arts. The building designed
by Ralph Harrington Doane, Antonio Mañalac Toledo and Juan M. Arellano was
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built between 1918-1926. Doane with the assistance of Toledo, designed the
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building originally as the National Library.

The building began its construction in 1918, was delayed for lack of funds, and
was decided to become the Legislative Building. Arellano revised the plan by

History
adding the fourth floor and the chambers for legislators, changing the central
façade and incorporating the ornamentation and sculptural work.
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 History
In 1935, the Commonwealth of the Philippines was
proclaimed, and the inauguration of President Manuel L.
Quezon were held outside the building. The building
became home of the National Assembly of the
Philippines, and it was subsequently known as the
National Assembly Building. In 1940, the National
Assembly was replaced by a bicameral Congress of the
Philippines, consisting of a Senate and House of
Representatives. The Senate occupied the upper floors
while the House occupied the lower floors. The building
would serve as home of the Commonwealth Congress until
1945.
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In February 1945 the Japanese forces used the building
and its premises as their stronghold and modified it with
their defensive installations. Obstacles, roadblocks,
trenches, pillboxes and barbed wires surrounded the
building. Guns and other heavy machine guns were
strategically installed on the building floors. For several
days until February 27 the American forces bombarded the
building with artillery fire. The building’s north and
south wings were heavily damaged.

With the inauguration of the Republic of the Philippines in 1946, the building
was reconstructed to be the home of Congress. It was rebuilt by the U.S.
Philippine War Damage Corporation to the same dimensions but with less
interior and exterior ornamentation. Reconstruction began in 1949, while the
Congress moved back the same year. The two wings of the building were
completed in 1950. The building was rebuilt mostly from memory, with the aid
of a few remaining blueprints.
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The building became known as the Congress Building, and
continuously served as home of the Congress of the Philippines
until 1972 with the declaration of martial law. The Congress
was effectively dissolved, and the building was padlocked. For
a short time, the building became home of the offices of the
Prime Minister of the Philippines, a position established under
the 1973 Constitution of the Philippines, on the fourth floor, the
Ombudsman on the third floor, the National Museum on the
second floor, and the Sandiganbayan on the ground floor. The
building was called the Executive House for the duration of
that time.

The Senate would use the Congress Building until May 1997, when it moved to
the Government Service Insurance System Building on reclaimed land on
Manila Bay in Pasay. The former office of the Prime Minister was taken as the
Office of the Vice President. The building was then turned over to the National
Museum of the Philippines in 1998.
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Architecture
Ralph Harrington Doane Antonio Mañalac
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Juan M. Arellano

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It is fiesignefi in neoclassical style
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Significance
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The significance of the National Museum of Fine Arts is to

to acquire, document, preserve, exhibit, and foster scholarly
study and appreciation of works of art, specimens, and
cultural and historical artifacts of the Philippine, from the
historic times to the present, although the diversity of their
cultural origins.. We can see here all of the artworks made
by 19th century Filipino masters, National Artists, leading
modern painters, sculptors, and printmakers. And because
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of this we can preserve the artworks that they made and

preserve it for the future.

Submitted to: Ma'am Irish gRACE rEGALADO