[The Slingshot] When heritage’s wrecking ball comes from the National Museum

It is a gross aberration when government’s national cultural agency, mandated to be a prime heritage protector of the State, becomes the demolition team itself. In which case, not just alarm bells but danger signals are now forewarning us of what else it could do to our continually depleting national heritage.

The Relief Map of the Philippines and lagoon at the eastern end of the Rizal Park is no more. It was demolished by the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP). It is now all rubble.