BALIUAG MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

(Baliwag Town Proper, Cagayan Valley road)

(National and Local Museum and Heritage)

Background:

The BaliuagMuseum and Library, or Museo ng Baliuag (Tahanan ng Kasaysayan atKalinangan ng

Baliwag, formerly known as "Lumang Municipio" or Old Municipal Building) is the town’s center for
historical and cultural heritage.
The landmark Baliuag Municipal Library and Museum is owned by the LocalGovernment. The
heritage-historic Filipino-colonial mansion Bahay na Batothe officialrepository (established in 1998 as a
natural historyand ethnographymuseum) of Baliuagand Bulacan province.
Baliuag Museo is located in Town Proper, Old Municipal Bldg., Cagayan Valley Road,Poblacion,
Baliuag, Bulacanin the Republic of the Philippines, It is 150 meters from theheritage St. Augustine Parish
Church of Baliuag.
The century-old Museo ng Baliuag is administered by Heherson Cruz (Museum andLibrarian III
In-charge, Librarian).
Baliuag, Bulacan was the first Municipio ever created during the American regime inthe
Philippines, on May 6, 1899, five days before the fateful "Sabang Battle".
In the History of the Philippines (1521 – 1898), Roman Catholicism in the Philippines, Baliwag
had 30 curates. Fr. Esteban Diez Hidalgo and Fr. Fausto Lopez served 40 and 24 years,respectively. Fr.
Lopez had 6 children with a beautiful native, Mariquita Amparo: Soledad, Rita,Carmen, Dr. Joaquin
Gonzalez (politician), Francisco, the former Assemblyman Ricardo LloretGonzales(Legislative districts of
Bulacan, 5th Philippine Legislature), and Jose the eldest who was widely known as “Pepeng Mariquita".
Spanish cura parroco, FR. Ysidoro Plada served in Baliwag during the last decade of Spaniard Regime.