Lopez Museum and Library

The Lopez Museum is a Philippine craftsmanship and history exhibition hall and library situated in Pasig, Philippines at the ground floor of the Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue, Ortigas Center. The Lopez Museum was established on 13 February 1960 by Eugenio Lopez, Sr out of appreciation for his folks, Benito Lopez and Presentacion Hofilena. Eugenio Lopez manufactured the historical center to give researchers and understudies access to his own accumulation of uncommon Filipiniana books, compositions, maps, archeological antiques and artistic work.

Eugenio Lopez is referred to numerous as a main industrialist of post-World War II Philippines. With assets that originated from sugar generation, he spear headed in ious fields of business including transportation, broad communications, vitality getting to be one of the principal Filipino triumphs in business in a then generally American overwhelmed economy. A staunch patriot, Eugenio Lopez trusted that by safeguarding and advancing the Filipino legacy, his nation men would in the long run create feeling of national pride and empower the nation to build up a bound together soul eventually bringing about guaranteeing a reinforcing of an aggregate national soul in the succeeding generations.

As the story for most exhibition halls worked from a center of individual acquisitions, the Lopez Museum gathering is an amalgam of items mirroring the unmistakable and in addition inert peculiarities of every one of its caretakers and executives. Aside from constituting a fundamental commitment to surviving Philippine legacy, the Lopez Museum accumulation remains as one of the most established, openly available private craftsmanship accumulations in the nation.