Museo Sugbo

Museo Sugbo was once a prison built in 1871 where criminals were incarcerated
including some Katipuneros during the Philippine revolution and Japanese occupation. It
used to be named Carcel de Cebu which means Provincial Jail of Cebu then to CPDRC in the
1980s. In 2004 Governor Gwen Garcia headed the transfer of CPDRC to a more modern and
spacious prison complex which then turn Carcel de Cebu to Museo Sugbo: The Cebu
Provincial Museum. It is the repository of Cebuano and Philippine Heritage and was
inaugurated on August 5, 2008.

The front area of Museo Sugbo

The Cebu Provincial Museum is divided into different galleries that housed in four
separate buildings and are in chronological order. Its as if you are time-travelling or
stepping into a different era every time you walk in a gallery, the following galleries:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Pre Colonial Gallery

Spanish Colonial Gallery
Cebu Journalism and Journalist Gallery
National Historical Institute Museum of Philippine Political History

Pre-Colonial Gallery
This gallery features found artifacts, broken silverware, and bones of Filipinos all
dated long before the Spaniards came to the islands.
Nipa Hut or Bahay Kubo the most common form of
housing constructed out of wood, planks, grass,
bamboo and anahaw leaves.

Chinese tradeware ceramics

dating from the Sung, Yuan
and Ming Dynasty.

Wooden coffin used to send

off the dead to the sea.

Spanish-Colonial Gallery

This gallery features the Spanish legacy of conquest, conversion and consolidation in
Cebu.

The Spaniards baptized Rajah Humabon and his entire tribe as Christians.

Spanish documents from conquests and swords used the

Spaniards

Ancient rifle and sword with unusual design.

First letter ever sent out of the

Philippines to the King of Spain.

Collection of old bills from Philippine National Bank.

Cebu Journalism and Journalist

Gallery

Bisaya-Espanol Dictionary used in

teaching Spanish to Cebuano students.

This gallery features Cebu Media its history from print, radio and television journalism.

Replica of a radio broadcast booth.

Newspaper printing machines.

Collection of 1950s Japanese cameras.

Radio operates to communicate news across houses.

Ballot boxes use in keeping peoples votes in

National Historical Institute Museum.

Linotype machine, a printing and typing machine used

in publication before the 1970s.

Republic of the Philippines

Commission on Higher Education
Cebu Technological University
Main Campus, M.J. Cuenco, R. Palma St., Cebu City

The front area of Museo Sugbo

RURAL AND
URBAN
DEVELOPMENT
EDUC 614

MEMORABILIA & ARTIFACTS

MUSEO SUGBO
INSTRUCTOR:

DR. MIRANDA
STUDENT:

JENESA A. CUYAG