"Burgos National Museum - an interesting Museum" Top 5 Page for this destination Vigan Travelogue by myspices

This is the ancestral house/birthplace of Padre Jose Burgos.

Death chair and coffin

The Death Chair is used for placing the corpse at the ancestral place to disintegrate and later the bones will be collected and a prayer made..

You might wonder how come the Coffin is so small - actually the body of the death is wrapped up like a mummy in a squatting position and placed into this little coffin.

an old horse-drawn carriage

a very old horse-drawn carriage..

the execution..

write-up and picture on the execution of Fathers Burgos, Gomez and Zamora (1872)

picture on construction of Paoay Church

write-up and picture on how the Paoay Church is being constructed (1704)

one of the many black and white pictures

beautiful photographs (usually of black and white) are being displayed in the Museum

one of the many rooms...

this is the dining area - it is out of bound. Beautiful cutlery laid on the table top.

the grinder placed in the compound of the Museum

a couple of equipment are exhibited here...