The UST Museum, inside the University of Santo Tomas, is one of the oldest museum collections in the Philippines. Its galleries cover natural history, fine art, ethnography, religious objects, geology, zoology, and botany, giving the campus a stronger visitor draw than its university setting might suggest.
The natural-history material is the most distinctive part, but the wider collection also gives a compact overview of Catholic, academic, and scientific collecting in Manila. Allow time to look at the historic university buildings around the museum as part of the same visit.