TO cap off its 60th anniversary and in time for the festive season, Ayala Foundation had the soft opening of Ayala Museum and Filipinas Heritage Library (FHL) on December 4. Closed for renovation since June 2019, the soft opening offers a glimpse of the newly RENOVATED MUSEUM AND LIBRARY WITH fiVE GALLERIES INITIALLY accessible to the public with pre-booked admissions, timed entries, and limited capacity on admissions.

The new Ayala Museum boasts of quincentennial celebration of the circumnavigation refreshed exhibition, event, and retail of the world, the exhibition spaces. Designed once again by Leandro “Intertwined: Transpacific, V. Locsin Partners (LVLP), it features Transcultural Philippines” explores the a new inviting lobby marked by a distinctive resulting entangled cultures brought Asian sensibility and borrowed about by man’s ability to circumnavigate landscape, integrating it closer to the the world with over 240 carefully Greenbelt complex and its environs. The curated objects and artworks. resulting outside-inside atmosphere is a A new dedicated gallery in honor of wise pandemic response alongside plans artist Fernando Zobel who envisioned to ensure the museum is a safe zone, deAyala Museum will be unveiled with the fined by physical distancing and safety exhibition “Landscape into Painting: Fernando from the transmission of disease. Zobel Serie Blanca.” As an art and

A total of five new exhibitions are now history museum, the Orientations Gallery open for viewing at the museum as well as conveys, with a display of tangible objects its website and dedicated app. from the Ayala Museum collections, the

A fitting follow-through to this year’s wealth and diversity that abound in the

cultures and peoples throughout the islands and the nation’s past.

And for the first time ever in the Philippines, guests will encounter the Digital Gallery located in the museum’s new lobby. Made up of eight sprawling screens, the gallery enables visitors to digitally explore objects from the museum and library collections and engage in interactive and up-close conversations

with art and history for free.

The Diorama Experience, a totally refreshed exhibition mainstay, will also be on view for a new generation to enjoy.

The rest of the Ayala Museum galleries will be unveiled by the first half of 2022.

In response to the global pandemic and to ensure guests will feel both inspired and safe when visiting, operational adjustments and safety protocols have been

adopted. All guests visiting the museum and library, regardless of age, must be fully vaccinated and will have to provide proof of vaccination upon entry for the safety of all visitors and staff.

Full protocols, visitation guidelines, and reminders are available on Ayala Museum’s new website: www.ayalamuseum.org/visit.