MAKATI CITY TRAVEL INFORMATION

Makati City Man-Made Tourist Attractions

Nielsen Tower / Airport (Ayala Ave. cor. Makati Ave.).
Now the Filipinas Heritage Library, the place provided the first private domestic flight of the Philippine Airlines and Iloilo-Negros Air Express Company immediately after WW II until the airport opened in Pasay City in 1951.

Ayala Museum (Makati Avenue, Makati).
The museum is a unique show window of Philippine history and culture. It features 60 dioramas (tri-dimensional portraits) depicting significant events of Philippine history and scaled down reproductions of native boats and foreign ships.

Philippine Army Museum (McArthur Drive, Fort Bonifacio).
It is a repository of antique guns, cannons, tanks, and other relics of WW II as well as captured paraphernalia, ammunition, and weapons of the New People's Army (NPA). A special feature is a tunnel with several arteries leading to different exits.

Museo ng Makati (J.P.Rizal St. Poblacion, Makati).
Primarily a municipal museum, it is the reservoir of the artifacts, treasures, and relics of the town's glorious past. It is also a venue of various exhibits showcasing the different regions of the country.

Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center (395 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Makati).
Established in 1945, this library provides accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive information about the United States. It is a place where lectures and seminars are held. Film screenings and video tape recordings are done here as well. It is likewise a venue of visiting performing artists.

Makati Park and Garden (J.P. Rizal St.).
Considered as the city's main garden park, it has well-lighted park walks around fully landscaped gardens, a man-made lagoon and waterfalls, a gazebo and ornamental islet lighted fence, adjoining park spaces, and an amphitheater for cultural shows like the performing arts of ballet, folk dances, stage plays, contemporary and traditional bands.

Alliance Francaise Art Gallery (22 Keystone Building, Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Makati).
This art gallery features paintings done by young and contemporary Filipino artists.

Finale Art File (G-20 Sunvar Plaza, Pasay road, Makati).
It features artworks on canvas, art photographs, and pottery.

Galleria Aurora (19 Ponce St. San Lorenzo Village, Makati).
Displays are limited to paintings done by more than 50 artists.

Galeria Jupiter (74 Jupiter Street, Bel-Air, Makati).
This gallery showcases Oriental art objects and furnitures. Also found here are Chinese and Korean antiques and ceramics.

Luz Gallery (Locsin Bldg., Makati & Ayala Ave., Makati).
It features interesting art pieces such as old prints, artifacts, old ceramics, antiques, sculptures, and brass figures.

Osmundo Gallery (Dusit Hotel Nikko, EDSA, Makati).
This gallery showcases antique furniture, Philippine saints and folk art, excavated Philippine pottery, Chinese porcelain, and heirloom pieces.

Ayala Center (Ayala Ave., Makati).
Right in the heart of bustling Makati, the country's business and financial center is a commercial complex at par with the world's most modern business cosmos.

Makati Cinema Square (cor. Amorsolo St., Makati).
Under the roof is an extensive collection of shops offering everything and anything from the finest merchandise at bargain prices, quality dining, blockbuster entertainment to top-of-the-line recreational facilities.

Makati Stock Exchange (Ayala Ave. Makati).
It houses the trading of stock.

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