A creative and critical space dedicated to
UP Diliman heritage and interdisciplinary collaborations
Since its inauguration in 2009 as a Centennial Project for the University of the Philippines, the Bulwagan ng Dangal University Heritage Museum has led and has been a host to wide-ranging initiatives on art, culture, history, and heritage.
Committed to creative collaborative work
Taking off from an understanding of heritage as interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral, the Bulwagan ng Dangal University Heritage Museum encourages collaborations
across its array of initiatives.
Exhibitions
The Bulwagan has led exhibitions on the concept of UP heritage, and has hosted shows curated by scholars from various disciplines, art practitioners and institutions, and other partners with strong advocacies.
Programs
Alongside collateral programs for exhibitions mounted at the museum, the Bulwagan has also been host to various colloquia, seminars, conferences, performances, and other forms of programs directed to various publics.
Collections
Envisioned to engage with the University Art Collection housed in various units within the university, the Bulwagan also manages and cares for a humble collection of artworks by artists-alumni of the University.
“[The Bulwagan] is more akin to a creative laboratory, interdisciplinary in orientation, open to the importuning of contemporary art, and always attuned to the experiments of artists and cultural workers from the gamut of instincts of the fine arts, humanities, anthropology, film, architecture, physics, education, economics, and so on.”
Prof. Patrick D. Flores, PhD
Professor, Art Historian, and Curator
From “The Call of the Cellar,” 2009
As the largest exhibition space on campus, it aims “to foreground the vast intellectual and aesthetic resources of the University” mainly found in the University Art Collection.
– Prof. Rubén D. F. Defeo, inaugural curator of the museum, “Bulwagan ng Dangal,” 2009
Heritage is all-encompassing and inclusive, it is multi-faceted and diverse, and encourages continuing explorations in history and memory, culture and identity. To insist upon heritage as an index of purity and singular narrative is a step away from public poetics and unity.
– Zeny Mae Dy Recidoro, former museum assistant, “Spatial Cycles: Notes from Working in a University Heritage Museum,” 2018
News & Happenings
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BnD joins the Museums and Galleries Month (MGM) 2025
The Bulwagan ng Dangal University Heritage Museum proudly joins the nationwide celebration of Museums and Galleries Month 2025 with the theme, “𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐦𝐬 & 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲.” […]
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