Travel Diary: Marikina Edition- The Spirit of Bethlehem and Museum of Miniatures

hi everyone its me again! so for today im gonna continue with sharing my recent museum tours this time its for The Spirit of Bethlehem and Museum of Miniatures

so let me just give you a brief information about the museums.

"The Spirit of Bethlehem is a private collection of over 500 belens/nativity sets/posters/paintings and sculptures from all over the world. It boasts of numerous pieces from here and abroad, collected thru decades of devotion to the Infant Jesus, by its owner, Gigi Abaya-Carlos."

"Among those on display is her very first belen set bought in 1952 at Catholic Trade School in Tayuman. Belens/Nativity sets from different countries like the United States, Mexico, Spain, Israel, Africa, Guatemala, China, and different regions of the Philippines, will certainly catch your attention because they reflect the culture from where they originated. 80% of the collection are made in the Philippines"

info lifted from the website

here are some of the photos taken at the museum:

This is the 1st thing that will greet you upon entering the museum

here are some of the belens on display

Museum of Miniatures

"After seeing all the Belens, one is awed by the collection of tiny but real-looking replicas of things you would find in all the different rooms of a European mansion. It is a collection of shadow boxes filled with Lilliputian pieces of 1:1 scale."

"The miniatures are part of the collection of the late Aleli Vengua, a passionate artist who handcrafted most of the pieces herself. A lot of the materials used are from scrap items in our day to day living, be it plastic, wood, aluminum, fabric, and glass. "

"Each room is designed with so much detail and attention that one will never want to look away. "

info from the website

here are some photos in the museum itself