A Day at the Museum of Natural History - Defining what a Museum is

Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog

Field Trip of public school teachers from UST Graduate School under an enhancement program, UPLB Laguna.


Skeleton of a tamaraw (Anoa mindorensis), now an endangered species. It is endemic to the Mindoro Island


Wall. wall, who is the most informed of all?


History in a glass case


Whale, dead and alive - and threatened.


Kids' world in a natural world through arts


Public high school teachers in Metro Manila pose before the UPLB Museum of Natural History


Author leads group in a field lecture

Museum is...

Museum is where time stands still and the world goes back
into the realm of the past resurrected by fossil and artifact;

Museum is a capsule of time and space that makes a tour
for the busy soul to break away from daily grind and chore;

Museum is where man's instinct yearning to know his origin
as a human being comes to terms with unsettled beginning.

Museum is the showcase of biodiversity, past and present
of the living world - prehistoric, the ancient and the recent;

Museum is a diorama, fashioned by man's hand, aesthetic
and make-believe, his life in harmony, doubt and conflict;

Museum is an arena of knowledge, attracting the scholars
to talk about anything on earth, and beyond the stars;

Museum is a place of reflection where man draws humility
from revelation, embracing both unknown and reality.

Museum is a keyhole of a country's wealth and culture,
a view of awe and beauty, achievements and rapport;

Museum is a center of peace, foreigners and citizens
converging into small United Nations of many friends.

Museum is a place marked with neither beginning nor end,
it simply takes one into a journey of life down the bend. ~
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Photos taken at the Museum of Natural History at the University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Laguna.
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