ah. Since January 2021, Philippine objects from museums all over the world can be viewed on a website called Mapping Philippine Material Culture. Most of these swords, fabrics, knifes – tools of everyday life or works of art – are usually invisible. For decades, they have been laying in the vaults of ethnographic museums. Many of them testify to the diversity and the high quality of Philippine traditions of art and craft. Annette Hug describes the making of this project in the new Online-Magazine of Pro Helvetia, «V/A. Various Artists». She has talked to the Manila-based art critic Marian Pastor Roces and to Cristina Martinez Juan, project head for Philippine Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.
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