Culion Museum and Archives

The Culion Museum and Archives is a history museum located in Tiza, Culion, Palawan, within the Culion Sanitarium and General Hospital compound. It preserves the history of Culion as a former leper colony established in 1906 under American colonial administration. The museum houses medical equipment, photographs, documents, and artifacts related to leprosy treatment and community life. It is notable for its extensive archives documenting patients and the island's transformation into a municipality.

Visitors can expect a small, well-curated museum housed in a historic building within the hospital compound. Exhibits include vintage medical instruments, laboratory equipment, photographs, patient records, religious artifacts, and maps illustrating the history of the Culion Leper Colony. The archives contain documents and registers dating back to the early 1900s. Guided tours explain the island's medical history and community development. The setting is quiet and educational, surrounded by the sanitarium grounds near the town center.

Established to preserve the history of the Culion Leper Colony founded in 1906 as a segregation and treatment facility for leprosy under the American colonial government. The museum documents the medical, social, and administrative history of the colony, which was once the largest leprosarium in the world, and its later transition into a regular municipality in 1992. It holds one of the most complete leprosy-related archives in the Philippines.

Serves as a cultural and educational center commemorating the resilience of former patients and the community that developed on Culion Island. It preserves local heritage, religious traditions, and the collective memory of the island's unique medical history for visitors and researchers.