A National Museum for millennials

W- nounced in its Facebook page on New Year’s Day that the new National Museum of Natural His-

public on May 18, 2018 in celebration of International Museum Day, its founder, the young historian Ian Alfonso asked me to note the reaction of the young people in the comments. Museums were rather dull and boring to many of us before. But reading the comments being posted tell us of youngsters tagging their friends asking to accompany

- ners to date them during opening day. Among my friends, the most excited perhaps was my good friend the news anchor Kathy San Gabriel, who wanted to bring her daughter Kelsey to the museum. Since it was

- ment already has 1,100 comments, 1,662 shares, and 4,700 likes.

Michael Pocock, in one of his books described himself in the notes about the author: “His dream is to stand in a long, long line outside the Philippine National Museum waiting to get in.”

His dream has become a reality Museum of Fine Arts, designed by Juan Arellano), the former Department of Finance building (now the National of Anthropology

- ledo) and the former Department of Agriculture and Commerce and

- ism Building (now the National Museum of Natural History, also by

buildings, is actually not named after some Roman personality but an acronym of the buildings’ former

planned to be the Capitol Building

- ment itself during the early American period, were constructed separately and became stately testaments to American democracy alluding

neo-classical design of the build-