Museo Santatlo is the official page of Museo Santatlo, the parish museum of the Most Holy Trinity Parish, Balic-Balic, Sampaloc, Manila. collection focused on the following themes:
Cementerio (Spanish Colonial Manila Cemeteries) – the Most Holy Trinity Church stands on the sacred ground of a 19th century Spanish colonial cemetery built by Fr. (funerary chapel completed in 1891, closed around 1918). The museum aims to collect archival and photographic materials related to the history of Manila’s cemeteries and Sampaloc cemetery in particular. Parroquia – the former funerary chapel was re-opened in 1925 and subsequently expanded to accommodate the ever growing number of mass goers. Currently, the parish celebrates the founding anniversary as 1932. However, research indicates that the church became a parish church much earlier – possibly as early as 1926. The museum aims to collect materials related to the parish history including parish priests, parish organizations, parish souvenir programs. More importantly, the museum aims to collect materials related to Trinitarian devotion (books, prayers, music, art, poetry) particularly, though not exclusively, from the Philippines. The Most Holy Trinity Academy started in 1946 with the opening of the first kindergarten classes and legally registered in 1947. The collection will focus on various photographs and archival materials related to the school’s early history.
