Bernardino Jalandoni Museum

The Bernardino Jalandoni Museum occupies the ancestral home of the Jalandoni family on Rizal Street, a short walk from the Balay Negrense. The house was built in the early twentieth century and is a good example of the transitional style that combined Spanish colonial features with American-period influences — wide verandas, concrete columns alongside traditional woodwork.

Inside, exhibits cover the history of the Jalandoni family and, by extension, the history of the sugar industry in Negros Occidental. There are pieces of original furniture, historic photographs, and some of Don Bernardino's literary manuscripts. The house is run as a cultural foundation and draws a smaller crowd than the Balay Negrense, which means you get a quieter, more personal experience. The garden to the rear has several old shade trees that make it worth lingering.

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A story
Don Bernardino Jalandoni was not just a sugar planter — he was also a poet and literary figure who wrote in Hiligaynon. His house became a salon for Negrense intellectuals, and the museum now holds a collection of early twentieth-century literature that reveals a side of sugar-boom Negros rarely discussed in tourism materials.