About The Museum

Chinatown Museum is a heritage and community space that shares interesting highlights of Binondo’s history as one of the oldest chinatowns in the world.

The museum’s  visual narrative brings alive key social, cultural, economic, political and religious threads. Though topics like the rise of the Chinese mestizo and the birth of the Katipunan stems from the heart of Binondo, its impact has  changed the course of the country’s history.