The Bahay Tsinoy () is a building in
Intramuros
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Intramuros comprises a centuries-old hist ...
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which houses the Kaisa-Angelo King Heritage Center, a museum documents the history, lives and contributions of the
ethnic Chinese in the Philippine life and history.
Overview
The museum was designed by
Eva Penamora in collaboration with the late architect
Honrado Fernandez in 1996, and completed and inaugurated in 1999. Kaisa Para sa Kaunlaran, Inc., a non-profit organization co-founded by Teresita Ang-See, envisioned the project to provide another venue for advocating patriotism to the Philippines and promoting cultural identity and understanding between the local
Chinese and
Filipino communities, after the acclaimed bi-lingual children's educational television program ''Pinpin'' in the early 1990s.
Funding for the land and building structure was advanced by
Angelo King Foundation and eventually raised through generous contributions from different levels of Filipino-Chinese community, from
tai-pans to average wage-earners.
The museum is divided into the following sections:
* Early contacts
* The Parian
* Colonial culture
* Emergence of the Chinese community
* In defense of freedom
* Life in the 1800s
* National leaders of Chinese descent
* Gallery of rare prints and photographs
* Martyr's hall
* Ceramics collection
* Rare Philippine shell collection
* Tsinoys in nation-building (inaugurated in 2004)
The museum is fully air-conditioned and housed within the Kaisa-Angelo King Heritage Center building, which also houses the office of Kaisa Para sa Kaunlaran, Inc., Chinbin See Memorial Library, the Await Keng Theater Auditorium, the Benito Cu Uy Gam Hall, and the Pao Shi Tien and Madame Limpe seminar rooms, which all constitute the Kaisa Heritage Center.
See also
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Chinese Filipino
Chinese Filipinos (sometimes referred as Filipino Chinese or Chinoy/Tsinoy in the Philippines) are Filipinos of Chinese descent with ancestry mainly from Fujian, but are typically born and raised in the Philippines. Chinese Filipinos are one ...
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Sangley
Sangley (English plural: ''Sangleys''; Spanish plural: ''Sangleyes'') and Mestizo de Sangley (Sangley mestizo, ''mestisong Sangley'', ''chino mestizo'' or Chinese mestizo) are archaic terms used in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial ...
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List of museums in the Philippines
References
Further reading
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External links
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KAISA Heritage Center website
1996 establishments in the Philippines
Museums established in 1996
Museums in Manila
Art museums and galleries in the Philippines
Museums of Chinese culture abroad
Neoclassical architecture in the Philippines
Buildings and structures in Intramuros
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