Donna Mae Alaga 
Ever crossed in a trend, that to truly find your significant others, why not try hopping on museums— who knows what kind of art you might find? 🧐
Kidding aside, this International Museum Day, museums are not commemorated just because of their innate immaculate structures or how they fill spaces. They are not there to merely display artworks, name significant people, and guard historical artifacts.
Instead, the substance of this celebration lies behind what rare and transcendent spaces, people, stories, among others, fill them. Museums have been known as an avenue to connect generations and individuals of differences in age, race, ideals, and walks of life.
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has put a step forward in this years celebration with the theme “Museums for Education & Research”.
Recently, there is a growing concern on commemorative places like these being ruined at the expense of expansionist motives of both private and government sectors. With these alleged threats on museums, comes a challenge for both individuals and communities to highlight the part these institutions play for our society.
People should start visiting museums more as a viable mean to explore one’s cultural identity amidst the jeopardizing fad permeating mainstream communities. This in turn urges communities to foster accessibility and maintenance of these facilities on urban areas where people are quick to pick mall shopping and other means of consumerism as a counterpart. Activities related to this commemoration should be known to public with the help of local press, social media, and website.
