Ayala Museum

The Ayala Museum is a private museum of Philippine history and art located at Greenbelt Park in Ayala Center, Makati, Metro Manila. Operated by the Ayala Foundation, it is notable for its dioramas depicting Philippine history, the Gold of Ancestors pre-colonial gold collection, ethnographic and maritime collections, and rotating contemporary art exhibitions. It also houses the Filipinas Heritage Library.

Visitors can expect a modern, air-conditioned six-storey museum building in Greenbelt Park. The visit includes walk-through galleries with 60 handcrafted dioramas of Philippine history, cases displaying pre-colonial gold and ceramics, textile and ethnographic displays, and contemporary art exhibitions on upper floors. The Filipinas Heritage Library is on the same complex. Expect curated exhibitions, guided tours, a museum shop and café, and indoor viewing only.

Conceived as a museum of Philippine history and iconography by the Ayala Foundation, the museum was established in 1967 as the Ayala Museum and Filipinas Heritage Library. It originally occupied the old Makati Stock Exchange building and moved to its current purpose-built granite, steel and glass building in Ayala Center in 2004, designed by Leandro V. Locsin Partners.

The museum preserves and presents Philippine cultural heritage through its collections of pre-colonial gold, ceramics, textiles and historical dioramas, and promotes contemporary Philippine art through exhibitions and education programs. The Filipinas Heritage Library supports research on Philippine history and culture.