<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.nationalmuseum.gov.ph </Td> </Tr> <P> The National Museum of the Philippines (Filipino: Pambansang Museo ng Pilipinas) is a government institution in the Philippines and serves as an educational, scientific and cultural institution in preserving the various permanent national collections featuring the ethnographic, anthropological, archaeological and visual artistry of the Philippines . Since 1998, the National Museum has been the regulatory and enforcement agency of the National Government in the restoring and safeguarding of important cultural properties, sites and reservations throughout the Philippines . </P> <P> The National Museum operates the National Museum of Fine Arts, National Museum of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, and National Planetarium, all located in the National Museum Complex in Manila . The institution also operates numerous branch museums throughout the country . </P> <P> The National Museum began as Insular Museum of Ethnology, Natural History, and Commerce in 1901 under the Department of Public Instruction through Philippine Commission Act No. 284 . It was subsequently transferred to the Department of Interior as the Bureau of Ethnological Survey after the passage of the Philippine Commission Act No. 841 in 1903 . This new bureau was responsible for the Philippine participation in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 . After the exposition, it was abolished as a separate bureau and was renamed the Philippine Museum . </P>

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