The museum houses two main sections—the anthropological gallery showcasing artifacts significant and unique to the country, and the Ethno-cultural gallery narrating the local cultural landscape.
The museum is expected to re-open in March 2013.
However, the museum park inside the compound that boasts of a lagoon surrounded by native palms and endemic trees is open free to the public.
The museum was established after the accidental discovery of archaeological materials by the City Engineering Office of Butuan City in 1974 while draining the water confined inside a man-made river system, according to www.[]
nationalmuseum.gov.ph.
Succeeding excavations conducted by the National Museum yielded tremendous archaeological finds… The most significant find were the prehistoric Balanghai or Butuan boats that date from 4th to 13th centuries A.[]
