Organization: Nayong Pilipino Foundation
Country: The Philippines
Year: 2021
The Museo Nayong Pilipino is developing a digital database for researchers and local communities that are represented in the collection. We are starting with the digitization and archiving of the collection and developing policies for researchers and communities so that they can have access to these artifacts.
Sustainability aspiration
The Museo ng Nayong Pilipino is developing a digital database for researchers and local communities that are represented in the collection. We are starting with digitising and archiving the collection and developing policies for researchers and communities so that they can access these artefacts.
The main objectives of the project are to:
- Increase the accessibility of the NPF collection to different people from different groups;
- Raise visibility on the local cultures around the Philippines through the artefacts presented in the collection in a way that protects and respectfully represents the communities.
We hope that this project can benefit students and researchers through the access to the collection and the knowledge products developed from it. The collection features over 2 500 ethnographic artifacts from various ethnolinguistic groups in the country. Through the digital database, researches on materiality, on creative industries, on technology and methodology can be initiated and explored. Aside from researchers, we hope that communities represented in the collection would participate by telling us about the objects in our collection and allow the Museo to be a platform for them to share their culture with the rest of the country and the world. Aside from what people benefit from NPF, we hope that we can benefit in enriching the narrative of the collection through co-curation and research.
Ultimately, we hope that through our tangible artifacts we can protect and promote our intangible Filipino culture in all its diversity by creating a sustainable research-oriented environment.
OCM toolkit resources used
CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
NEMO Cross-Border Cooperation for Museums: from a project idea to a successful proposal: a toolkit