Pagsibol at Pagpapalalim: A Gathering of Stories on the Bulwagan ng Dangal

The Bulwagan ng Dangal University Heritage Museum, with the support of the UPD Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts and the UP Diliman Information Office, proudly presents the premiere of it’s fifteenth anniversary video feature entitled Pagsibol at Pagpapalalim: A Gathering of Stories on the Bulwagan ng Dangal.

The gathering of stories traces the history of the institution from its beginnings as a Centennial project to what it is today as an open and dynamic platform for various modes of display and discourse. This gesture sketches the museum’s shift from being a space that reared a more institutional notion of “heritage” (institutional history, architecture, significant personalities, and the like), towards being a more participative venue for identity construction and presentation, and alternative historicization of its community/ies (tradition of protest through time, various advocacies, communities in the fringes, and the like).

Stemming from it being the first museum in the country that has been deliberately conceived to dwell on the concept of “university heritage,” the Bulwagan ng Dangal aims to highlight in the video feature how the concept of “heritage” is mediated by the nature of the university as an academic institution that is meant to teach and research, and the vision for UP as the state university that is meant to serve Philippine society.