Gallery XI (Our Natural Inheritance)

Gallery XI (Our Natural Inheritance) of the National Museum of Natural History, focusing on climate change, is where you can learn various environmental issues that the country has been facing over the years.

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The electronic globe showing the earth’s biosphere

This gallery starts with a five-minute audio-visual presentation of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Philippines that are protected areas in the country with an introduction into the amazing biodiversity of the country.

Sitting at the center of the adjacent room is an electronic globe showing the Earth’s biosphere and some phenomena affecting the Earth’s climate system such as the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, the 1997 El Nino phenomenon and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.  It animates ocean currents, phytoplankton movements, tsunamis and more.

Around it are audio-visual presentations with state-of-the-art sound domes of some of the country’s flagship species as well as species recently described in the past decade.

Some of the NIPAS Declared Sites

Gallery XI (Our Natural Inheritance): Phinma North Exhibition Hall, 2/F, National Museum of Natural History,  Agrifina Circle in Rizal Park, T.M. Kalaw Street, corner General Luna Street, Manila. Open Tuesdays – Sundays,   9 AM to 12 noon (cut off time is 11 AM) and 1 to 4 PM (cut off time is 3 PM). Tel: 82981100 local 3000 and 85277889.  E-mail:  cmvod@nationalmuseum.ph or inquiry@nationalmuseumph.gov.ph. Visitors shall be limited to 100 per museum per session. Visitors are required to pre-book online at https://reservation.nationalmuseum.gov at least a day before the visit. Confirmation of booking will be sent through email.Group reservations are limited to five (5) persons only.  Walk-in visitors will NOT be accommodated.  Coordinates: 14°34′59.9″N 120°58′55.9″E.