Welcome to Datu Lubay Toys Museum. After almost a year of renovation and preparation, we are ready to open the museum. Official opening is scheduled on April 25, 2010. Here is the gate, along Progreso St., made of old bed posts. The house is covered by a thick foliage of mango trees. We do not want to cut the branches, though.
The entrance is of antique kitchen doors. It's called the Door of Ten Blue Moons.
This is the first section of the gallery: An exhibit of international costume dolls. We have porcelain dolls from Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, and a collection of Precious Moments dolls. There is a cloth doll form Kenya, terra cotta doll from India, also a collection of Wizard of Oz dolls given by Peter Nery. We also have a Cory Aquino doll and a Sam Milby doll among the Philippine dolls collection. Still wanting a display case is the Barbie Dolls of the World collection.
This is the section on performing arts. We have Chinese masks, Burmese, Indian, Indonesian puppets, Sarawak ritual dolls, Vietnamese water puppets, miniature musical instruments, etc. Our pride is the Ramayana quartet by original Bangkok Dolls, and statuettes of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Strauss from Austria, and a bust of Homer. These Western masters are displayed alongside Asian folk musicians - a terracotta band from Thailand, for example. The legong dancers and water puppets are displayed with Sesame Street!We are still doing the Balay-balay (Play House) section and the toy cars section.
