Upon our entrance, we were welcomed by paintings of the board members of Lasalle and the donors of the art collection. And then we were bound to see the collection of art that the museum equipped for the students’ viewing pleasure. Most of the paintings are about the everyday work of the Filipinos, they also exemplify the life that most of us encounter. Common themes are “ang tatlong maria”, “sabongero” and “mag-ina”. From the art collections, one can deduce that the purpose of this terms’ theme is to make the students aware of the life of the common Filipinos. The situations in every piece of art presented in the museum, tells us about the life of a real person who works all day to meet the needs of their family. Some show how Filipinos entertain themselves during their free times, and some illustrate the hardships and problems that the ordinary people encounter as they go on with their lives.

Each artwork/painting tells its own stories. It doesn’t matter how one view a particular art, it is how we grasp the message that the creator wants us to discern. A good creation is something that leaves a mark, something that will make us remember… something that as we go out the museum and continue on with our lives, will still manage to entrap our minds onto thinking that what we just saw is the illustration of our own lives, an expression of the reality that we live in…