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February 01, 2006: The Philippines: Rare Books in the Lopez Memorial Museum
"The center court has a modest collection of pre-colonial earthenware from the Calatagan, Batangas, excavations of the 1960s and it leads to a gallery dedicated to Jose Rizal and another gallery for rare books and maps. At the very end of the museum is the library -- the heart of the museum -- with a sizable collection of Filipiniana books and periodicals (most interesting being pre-war magazines and the pre-martial law photos and newspaper clippings that provide a window to the recent past)."


