Museo Pambata

The Museo Pambata Foundation, Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit organization that established the first children’s interactive museum in the Philippines in 1993.

The Museo Pambata is a children’s museum with various educational programs in support of children’s rights and a broad range of creative and educational services for children and adults involved in children’s welfare. It is an institutional member of the Philippine Board on Books for Young People and a member of the Zero In Consortium of Museums.

In 2000, Museo Pambata received the Pearl Anniversary Reading Advocacy Award from the Reading Association of the Philippines for having “redefined the concept of a museum and for advocating literacy and children’s rights.” It was also named the Most Child-Friendly Foundation in 2010 by the National Council for Children’s Television.

“For inspiring the creation of new children’s museums in the Philippines and in Asia,” the Hands On! International Association of Children’s Museums and the European Museum Academy gave Museo Pambata the Children’s Museum Award Special Commendation in 2012 in Bologna, Italy. Museo Pambata was the only non-European museum shortlisted for the First Children’s Museum Award.

Museo Pambata was also shortlisted at the 2016 Leading Cultural Destinations Awards (”the Oscars for museums”) as a Best Soft Power Cultural Organization.

Since it opened in 1994, the Museo Pambata and its extension programs have welcomed 6 million visitors.