🏛️ Top 3 Museums in Manila (2026)

The best museums in Manila in 2026, by our editorial score, are National Museum of Fine Arts, Casa Manila Museum and National Museum of Natural History. Last updated November 5, 2026 · Methodology

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   National Museum of Fine Arts

   📍 Rizal Park / Ermita, Manila, Metro Manila · Free

   Flagship art museum of the National Museum of the Philippines, housed in the former Legislative Building (built 1918–1926) with 29 galleries of 19th-century masters and National Artists.

   Don't miss: See the galleries of 19th-century Filipino masters and the restored Old Senate Session Hall.

   ★ 4.1 (705 TripAdvisor)
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   Casa Manila Museum

   📍 Intramuros, Manila, Metro Manila · ₱

   Reconstructed 19th-century bahay na bato house museum run by the Intramuros Administration, furnished to show upper-class colonial domestic life.

   Don't miss: Tour the furnished rooms of a 19th-century merchant house.

   ★ 4.1 (454 TripAdvisor)
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   National Museum of Natural History

   📍 Rizal Park / Ermita, Manila, Metro Manila · Free

   Natural-history museum opened to the public on 18 May 2018 in the neoclassical former Agriculture and Commerce Building, with twelve permanent galleries around a central Tree of Life structure.

   Don't miss: Stand under the Tree of Life and walk the twelve galleries from mountain ridge to reef.
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