MET Museum: ART FOR ALL

Located within the complex of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila is the premier museum of modern and contemporary visual arts in the Philippines. Situated along Roxas Boulevard in Malate, Manila, the Met (as it’s more commonly called) houses a collection of pre-colonial, modern and contemporary Philippine art.

Established in 1976, it was known as the first Philippine art institution to offer a bilingual and pedagogical program. Partly subsidized by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the administration of the museum was entrusted to the Metropolitan Museum of Manila Foundation in 1979. 

The Met is responsible for the conservation of some of the national treasures of the country. Local and foreign tourists wishing to catch a glimpse of the country’s art and culture should include this destination in their itinerary. 

Plan Your Visit:

Admission & Rates:

Php. 100.00 for children above 3 years old,students, foreign guests & adults,while Php. 80.00 for the Senior Citizens and PWD.

If you want a guided tour (lower than 50 persons) add Php. 500.00 for the fee and for the group tours (minimum of 50 persons) Php. 90.00 for the fee.

The Museum is open from Monday to Saturday (10:00 am- 5:30 pm) and closed on Sundays and Holidays.

On Tuesdays the Museum administers FREE ADMISSIONS, and a FREE GUIDED TOUR on Saturdays at 2:00 pm.

How to get there?

• Via Bus/Jeepney

At Taft Avenue, get off at Pablo Ocampo Street,take the CCP Orange Shuttle and get off at the corner of Pablo Ocampo Street and Roxas Boulevard, and lastly walk to the right along the service road until you get to the museum.

• Via LRT

Get off at either Quirino or Vito Cruz Stations as these are the nearest ones to the museum. 

Dont worry! There is a parking available in front of the museum if you are riding a private vehicle.

When we went there last December 13, we saw the contemporary paintings of various artists and 3 exhibitions, namely the "Carpenter, Mason, Welder, and a Weightlifter", "MUHON: Traces of an Adolescent City", and "Framing the Spectacle of Space". All three are only displayed in the "MET" museum until December 29.

Posters from metmuseum.ph

The museum houses a collection of art and historical artifacts loaned by the BSP such as pre-Hispanic goldwork and pottery, religious artwork as well as some artworks by Felix Hidalgo. The rest of the museum is dedicated to Philippine contemporary featuring works of various Filipino artists.

The permanent exhibitions are Classical Philippine Goldwork & Pottery of the 8th to the 13th Century and the Philippine Contemporary: To Scale the Past and the Possible.In the Classical Philippine Goldwork,you will see items such as gold adornments, ritual pieces and barter rings. Those collections are evidence of a flourishing pre-colonial society in the Philippines that was actively engaged in local and international trade.While in Classical Philippine Pottery, you will saw the pottery used by our forefathers in Pre- Colonial times as ritual articles,household implements and burial vessels.In the Philippine Contemporary, it highlights the Met’s direction to “integrate a heightened focus on modern and contemporary art by Philippine and foreign artists.” The exhibition is curated by Dr Patrick Flores, a well-known art critic and scholar, and covers a wide range of forms such as painting, installations, visual culture and popular media (comics, photography, film and video).