Museo Valenzuela

{{Short description|Museum in Valenzuela, Philippines}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Use Philippine English|date=August 2025}} {{Refimprove|date=May 2012}} {{Infobox museum | name = Museo Valenzuela | image = Museo Valenzuela (Valenzuela; 10-03-2021).jpg | caption = The museum in 2021 | location = Valenzuela, Philippines | coordinates = {{coord|14|40|55|N|120|58|49|E|dim:30_region:PH_type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | established = {{Start date|1998|11|6}} }} '''Museo Valenzuela''' is a museum in Valenzuela in Metro Manila, Philippines. It opened on November 6, 1998. It is the city's historical and cultural landmark, named after Pío Valenzuela in 1963. Museo Valenzuela features collections of artifacts depicting the city's past and continuing development. It is also a venue for historical, cultural, and artistic presentations as well as seminars and symposia on national and local issues.<ref>{{cite news|last=de la Rama|first=Cher|title='City with a Heart' Turns 4 Years Old|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vlo1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=kiUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=933,3332260&dq=museo+valenzuela&hl=en|accessdate=23 April 2011|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer|date=9 February 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Barona|first=Franco|title=Valenzuela Museum Launched|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l58VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1goEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1881,2774329&dq=fatima+valenzuela+shrine&hl=en|accessdate=23 April 2011|newspaper=Manila Standard|date=18 March 1996}}</ref>

==History== The original museum of Valenzuela was the house where Pío Valenzuela, a hero in the struggle of freedom against Spain and in whose memory the old town of Polo was renamed, was born and saw the best years of his life. This same house was burned recently.

==Gallery== <gallery> File:MuseoValenzuelajf4368 15.JPG|Frontage File:MuseoValenzuelajf4368 11.JPG|Pío Valenzuela File:MuseoValenzuelajf4368 13.JPG|Side facade File:MuseoValenzuelajf4368 08.JPG|Entrance portrait File:MuseoValenzuelajf 4353 12.JPG|Interior, second floor File:MuseoValenzuelajf 4336 15.JPG|One of the dioramas File:GrandMarianExhibitjf9943 10.JPG|[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Grand_Marian_Exhibit,_National_Shrine_of_Our_Lady_of_Fatima 15th Grand Marian Exhibit, National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima] File:GrandMarianExhibitjf9976 01.JPG|Entrance arch File:GrandMarianExhibitjf9943 13.JPG|Front facade File:GrandMarianExhibitjf9957 04.JPG|The Marian Statues of the Exhibit, 2013 File:MuseoValenzuelajf4368 05.JPG|Valenzuela City creation documents File:Dr._Pio_Valenzuela_Ancestral_House_January_2023.jpg|Museo ni Dr. Pio Valenzuela in Barangay Pariancillo Villa was inaugurated on February 14, 2023. </gallery>

==See also== * Valenzuela, Philippines * Pío Valenzuela

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==External links== * {{Commons category-inline}} * [https://www.valenzuela.gov.ph Official website of Valenzuela City]

Category:Museums in Metro Manila Category:Buildings and structures in Valenzuela, Metro Manila Category:Museums established in 1998