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The Baliuag Museum and Library, or Museo ng Baliuag (Sentro ng Kalinangan at Kasaysayan ng Baliuag, formerly known as "Lumang Municipio" or Old Municipal Building) is the town’s center for historical and cultural heritage.〔http://www.bulacan.gov.ph/tourism/touristspot.php?id=7〕 The landmark Baliuag Municipal Library and Museum is owned by the Local Government. The heritage-historic Spanish-colonial house (mansion) is the official repository (established in 1998 as a natural history and ethnography museum) of Baliuag and Bulacan province. Baliuag Museo is located in Town Proper, Old Municipal Bldg., Cagayan Valley Road, Poblacion, Baliuag, Bulacan in the Republic of the Philippines,〔http://www.localphilippines.com/attractions/1257/baliuag-museum〕〔http://www.royalnorthwoods.com/images/news/download/Tourist%20spots%20and%20festivals%20in%20bulacan-.pdf〕 It is 150 meters from the heritage St. Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag. The century-old Museo ng Baliuag is administered by Baliuag Tourism Secretary Rosie Q. Bautista and Gaspar U. Resurreccion (Museum and Librarian III In-charge〔http://web.nlp.gov.ph/nlp/?q=node/5067〕〔http://web.nlp.gov.ph/nlp/?q=node/2604〕 with the assistance of Library Staff, Heherson C. Cruz, Librarian).〔http://www.biyahero.net/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=24&sobi2Id=460&Itemid=56〕 ==History== Baliuag, Bulacan was the first Municipio ever created during the American regime in the Philippines, on May 6, 1899, five days before the fateful "Sabang Battle". In the History of the Philippines (1521–1898), Roman Catholicism in the Philippines, Baliwag had 30 curates. Fr. Esteban Diez Hidalgo and Fr. Fausto Lopez served 40 and 24 years, respectively. Fr. Lopez had 6 children with a beautiful native, Mariquita Amparo: Soledad, Rita, Carmen, Dr. Joaquin Gonzalez (politician), Francisco, the former Assemblyman Ricardo Lloret Gonzales (Legislative districts of Bulacan, 5th Philippine Legislature), and Jose the eldest who was widely known as “Pepeng Mariquita". Spanish cura parroco, Fr. Ysidoro Prada served in Baliwag during the last decade of Spaniard regime.〔http://junrustia2006.multiply.com/journal/item/2〕 Mariquita's family owned the biggest house in Baliuag which occupied a big block. Her son, Dr. Joaquin Gonzalez practiced medicine. In his lucrative profession, he treated patients in his clinic located inside their big ancestral mansion across the old Municipal Building traversing the National Highway. This landmark house was later used and became the Old Municipal Building (now the Museo ng Baliuag). The Philippine-American civil and military authorities supervised the first municipal elections, having chosen Baliuag as the site of the first Philippine elections of May 7, 1899. The Filipinos gathered at the plaza of the St. Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag after the Holy Mass, and thereafter the officials were selected based on the qualifications for voters set by the Americans.〔http://www.philstar.com/news-feature/397512/baliuag-marks-108-years-town-elections〕 The first town Gobernadorcillo (1789 title) of Baliuag was Capitan Jose de Guzman.〔http://baliwag.net/index.php/general-information/history-of-baliwag/general-history/130-the-gobernadorcillo-in-baliuag?format=pdf〕 He was assisted by the Tribunal's teniente mayor (chief lieutenant), juez de ganadas (judge of the cattle), juez de sementeras (judge of the field) and juez de policia (judge of the police). In the History of the Philippines (1521–1898), the 1893 Maura Law, the title of Gobernadorcillo became "capitan municipal" and that of each juez to teniente. From Baliwag's independence from Quingua, now Plaridel, Bulacan to 1898, 49 served as capitan, 13 alcalde and 92 as Gobernadorcillo. Felix de Lara (1782) and Agustin de Castro (1789) were the 1st alcalde and Gobernadorcillo, respectively. Municipal President Fernando Enrile, in 1908 honored some of these officials, even naming some of Baliuag calles in their honor, later. But all these political officials remained under the thumbs and the habito, of the autocratic Augustinian friars, the Baliuag Kura Parokos. Principalias or town castles, in the Hispanization of Baliwag, became the home of the rich and famous, who sported the titles of Don or Capitan (shrewd, hard-bargaining businessman, the highly successful professionals and even the parvenus, nouveaux riche). The local government of Baliuag used as first Municipio under the American regime (History of the Philippines (1898–1946)) the Mariano Yoyongko (Gobernadorcillo in 1885) Principalia in Poblacion (now a part of the market site), which it bought from Yoyongko.〔http://junrustia2006.multiply.com/journal/item/2〕 On September 15, 1915, Baliuag municipality bought the heritage mansion and lot of Dr. Joaquin Gonzalez (politician). The Gonzalez old mansion served as Lumang Munisipyo (the Old Municipio or Town Hall Building, as seat of the local government) for 65 years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baliuag Museum and Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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