What’s the best thing that a student should do after a stressful school work? After all those mind-wrecking and brain-damaging exams and quizzes? Those sleepless nights, all the efforts and everything? It is a well-deserved rest or in short, FIELD TRIP. Sharing with you our adventures inside Metro Manila and some of its museum that taught us something about the past. Let’s start off with the first destination which is the Mowelfund Museum. This place will welcome you with a refreshing view because of the trees and grass that gives the place a light and enjoyable feeling. Then we entered the building and we were serenaded by Xyruz Cruz, a GMA Artist then we proceeded to the museum. I find the museum really amazing and entertaining because it tells something about the past that we just heard from our parents and we’re unable to experience most of it. From the movie posters of well-known movies, to the extraordinary costumes and props like Filipiniana, Barong and Darna's remarkable costume, the prominent artists of Philippine Cinema which include Fernando Poe Jr., Dolphy, Nora Aunor, Vilma Santos and all those actors and actresses which our parents idolized. But what caught my attention are the room wherein they showed the cameras used before and the room where Philippines’ spooky mythical creatures. The cameras there are really different from what camera men use nowadays. Maybe before it’s bigger and hard to move but now, it’s convenient, a little bit smaller and easy to move. 

For the creatures, it is just fascinating how creative and imaginative the artists are to make it a bit realistic and scary. This museum serves not just to entertain us but to inform us what entertainment is before the modern era.

Mary Shaine Aranez

HUMSS 1, Baliuag University