Museo ng Tarlac

Provincial museum tracing Tarlac's history from pre-colonial times through the Aquino era

Museo ng Tarlac occupies a colonial-era building on Romulo Boulevard in the centre of Tarlac City and covers the province's story from its pre-Spanish origins to the political upheavals of the twentieth century. Admission is free, and the staff are genuinely pleased to have visitors. The collection is modest but well-curated: artefacts from the Aeta highlanders, Spanish-period religious objects, documents from the American colonial administration, and photographs from the Japanese occupation and the Bataan Death March.

The Aquino family features heavily in the recent-history rooms — Ninoy's imprisonment under martial law, Cory's election campaign, and the People Power revolution of 1986. There are also rotating exhibitions of contemporary Tarlac artists. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30am to 5pm, and closed on Mondays and public holidays.

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The museum holds one of the few surviving collections of artefacts from the Aeta people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Zambales mountains west of Tarlac, including woven baskets, blowpipes, and traditional clothing that predate Spanish colonisation by centuries.