LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The Filipino Town Museum opens to the public in Las Vegas, adding a historical center to the growing cultural corridor.
Community members gathered to welcome the public at the space at the Boulevard Mall; museum officials tell FOX5, the mall donated the space for the museum.
FOX5 has been following the creation and growth of Filipino Town since its official designation, last spring; in the fall, a ceremony unveiled an official sign for the area and celebrated the corridor’s inception. Long-time Las Vegas leader Rozita Lee, almost 91 years old, personally submitted the application for Filipino Town and helped grow businesses along the bustling corridor.
“We have 250,000 Filipinos. We’re the largest ethnic Asian group. Everybody needs to be recognized– and I feel that this is the venue where they can be recognized. Come. You are a Filipino. Be proud to be Filipino,” Lee tells FOX5 during the opening.
The items in various collections highlight various periods in Filipino history, from thousands of years of tribal traditions, centuries of trade with China, Spanish colonization and eventually American status as an “unorganized” U.S. territory.
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“The value of it is not necessarily for my generation, but it’s for the generation, especially for the Filipino Americans who were born here, that doesn’t have any connection whatsoever with their heritage or their parents’ heritage or where they came from,” said curator and executive director David Tupaz.
The museum is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The cost is 10 for general admission, $5 for students and seniors, and free for children under 12.
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