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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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Saturday, February 18, 2017
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An ensemble plays during the inauguration of the newly restored Old Jaro Municipal Hall as the Western Visayas satellite office of the National Museum of the Philippines on Friday, Feb. 17 in Jaro, Iloilo City. JOSELITO VILLASIS/PN
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ILOILO City – The National Museum of the Philippines has put up its satellite office in Western Visayas — at the newly restored Old Jaro Municipal Hall.
It will also use the building, which was once the Jaro district police station, as training and resource center and conference facility, and for other frontline services, according to Director Jeremy Barns.
“We hope the LGU (local government unit) will participate in such trainings so we could sustain the heritage and cultural [preservation] efforts the city government is already undertaking,” Barns said.
The city government is also entitled to use the building for official purposes.
Under Museum Declaration No. 21-2016, the Old Jaro Municipal Hall is an Important Cultural Property.
It was based on the deliberation of National Museum panel of experts: architects Manuel Duche and Augusto Villalon, Fathers Rene Javellana and Milan Ted Torralba, and Professor Regalado Jose.
In 2014 the city government donated the building to the National Museum, which in turn funded the restoration with P20 million.
“Under RA (Republic Act) 10066, buildings declared National Cultural Treasures or Important Cultural Properties get priority attention from the national government” in terms of protection from natural disaster and damage, said Barns.
Also known as the National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009, the law provides for the protection and conservation of the national cultural heritage.
“According to the law, they are entitled to government funding to make sure [they] will be preserved for future generations,” Barns said.
The National Museum satellite office will have 16 plantilla positions led by an officer-in-charge (OIC) in a “supervising officer level” position.
“[We will have a] skeleton staff muna habang hindi pa established ang full operation or habang wala pa iyong museum exhibition sa dating IRC,” Barns said.
He was referring to the old Iloilo Rehabilitation Center, which is currently being converted into a regional museum.
Barns said the OIC “will look after the museum gallery sa dating IRC at ibang activities ng National Museum sa buong Region 6, like regulatory activities and monitoring … restoration activities … or archeological expedition, among others.”
The Jaro Municipal Hall, whose construction started during the term of Municipal President Pablo Bion, was completed in 1934. Renowned architect Juan Marcos Arellano designed the zigzag moderne art deco building.
In 1941, Jaro ceased to exist as a municipality when then President Manuel Quezon annexed the town to Iloilo City by virtue of Proclamation No. 663.
After World War II, the Jaro Municipal Hall eventually became a puericulture center (prenatal care of unborn children through attention to the health of pregnant women) and later converted into a police station./PN
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