Museum · Manila, University of Santo Tomas
UST Museum of Arts and Sciences
The University of Santo Tomas Museum is the oldest existing museum in the Philippines.
The University of Santo Tomas Museum is the oldest existing museum in the Philippines. It started as a Gabinete de Fisica, or observation room, of mineral, botanical and biological collections in the 17th century. Under the old Spanish educational law the collections were used as classroom materials, especially in Medicine and Pharmacy.
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