Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
IN Bacolod City at the De La Salle Museum, you will find the best and choicest international textile collection in the Philippines. At the Negros Museum at the Bacolod Capitol is a collection of about 3,000 dolls from all over the world on exhibit. And in Sagay City in Negros Occidental is the Museo Sang Bata, a hands-on interactive children's museum. All these cultural institutions descend from one woman's life and activities, from her education and experience, from her far-ranging travels and focused interest on folk art, be they be toys or textiles or whatever artisanal elements come between.
Maria Teresa Montelibano, known to us as Mara Montelibano, is the personality who brought all these gifts to her homeland and specifically, her home province of Negros Occidental.
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