Museo ng Kagitingan, Mayor Pizarro’s long time dream

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – With the soft launching of the Museo ng
Kagitingan, Mayor Alice Pizarro of Pilar town, said in her message that,”even when she’s not yet a mayor then, it was her long time dream to have a museum in Pilar.
Hence in her term, it seems that the stars are falling in the right places, that their vision correlates with it that; Pilar: To be the Historical-Cultural Tourism Center of Luzon by 2020. As we all know, Mayor Pizarro added, culture plays a big part in the history expressed thru religion, customs, beliefs, arts, crafts and food. History is about great men and women who put their best foot forward and even took arms in bringing Pilar where it is now.
Mayor Alice Pizarro added that though it is now her last term in office, she’s happy to say that, one of her biggest achievements is the Museo ng Kagitingan, which is the first museum to be operated by a local gov’t unit.

At the launching, Prof. Eric Zerrudo, Director of the UST Graduate School Center for Conservation of Cultural Property and the Environment in the Tropics (USTCCCPET), with fellow collaborators Mrs. Marita Navata, Mrs. Josephine Ciriaco and Mr. Danque are one in saying that their biggest challenge in the making of the museum was the cultural mapping/gathering
of information on how to arrange it, in a way that people will learn, appreciate and value the history of Pilar.
Prof. Zerrudo likewise said that though Museo ng Kagitingan is just small compared with other museums, the impact is that, it is the Pride of Pilar
because it is only here that, one will learn,”Ang kwento ng Pilar” and the history behind it plus the fact that it is only in Pilar that they could find the Mt. Samat Shrine.