The Lopez Museum and Library will showcase its collection of important works at the UPV Museum of Arts and Cultural Heritage (UPV MACH) in two cycles – the first from November 2024 to April 2025 and the second from November 2025 to April 2026. There will be two exhibitions per cycle.

The collaborative initiative was firmed up May 20 through a tripartite Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Iloilo City Government, Lopez Group Foundation, and the University of the Philippines Visayas.

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The MOA was signed by Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas, Mercedes Lopez-Vargas, President and Executive Director of Lopez Group Foundation, Inc., and Chancellor Clement Camposano of UP Visayas, together with Prof. Martin Genodepa, Director of the UPV Office of Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (OICA), former tourism secretary Narzalina Lim, and former Senator Franklin Drilon. 

The collaboration aims to produce a series of exhibitions and related activities, a philanthropic initiative of the Lopez Group Foundation, Inc. as part of its social development efforts in Iloilo and which was championed by former Senator Drilon since 2019.

Moreover, the initiative supports the group’s efforts to protect and safeguard the Philippine heritage while ensuring inclusive and equitable access to heritage through exhibitions of important works of art outside Metro Manila.

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The Lopez Museum and Library is the oldest privately owned and managed museum and library specializing in Philippine material. It has over 500 works in its growing museum collection and over 30,000 titles in its expanding library catalog. It has a vast collection composed of books and maps of the sixteenth-century works by the first internationally acclaimed duo of Filipino painters, Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, and vaaluable personal effects of Philippine national hero José Rizal.

The collaboration is also aligned with UPV’s vision to become a university that engages students, scholars, and the community in the experience and study of art, culture, and heritage, through its exhibitions and programs.

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– Photos from the Facebook page of Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas
– Press release from UPV IPO