Museo Ilocos Norte

North Luzon


Housed in the historic Tabacalera warehouse, the snazzy Museo Ilocos Norte is one of the better ethnographic museums in the Philippines. It houses a large collection of Ilocano, Igorot and Itneg traditional clothing, household utensils, ceremonial objects and more. At the end of the hall is a split-level replica ilustrado (19th-century ancestral house).


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