When you enter, two sculptures by National Artist Guillermo Tolentino will greet. they are heroic monument, cast in metal, to Manuel Quezon, Former Senate the House, and Sergio Osmeno, Former Speaker of the Houses. At the lobbyof the building are two wooden relief by National Artist Napoleon Abueva assisted by renatto Rocha and Jose Mendozza. They portray Raja sulayman, His courts and the Pelisades (1967) and Lagazpi and the founding of Manila ( 1967). At the pediments of the back and front facades of the building and at the former session hall of the Philippines Senate are sculptures by Otto Fisher Credo, Walter Strauss, Vidal Tampinco, and Ramon Martinez.
The Old House of Representatives Session Hall ( The Hall of the Master
This room dedicated to the 19th century Filipino painters Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo who achieved prominence at the 1884 Madrid Exposition. Luna's spoilarium received one of the three gold and Hidalgo's Virgenes Cristianas Expuetes al Papulacho (cristian virgin presented populace) received one of the forteen medals.
Gallery I (Luiz 1. Ablaza hall)
Colonial Philippines Religious art from the 17th to the 19th centuries, prominent among which is aretablo from the church of San Nicolas de Tolentino in Dimiao , Bohol - a national Culture Treasure - together with a selection of carved religious image (santos)
Gallery II ( FCCP Hall)
In 1821, these fourteen paintings were collectively declared as a National Culture Treasure. they depict in naive and vivid style the famous 1807 uprising in Locos against rule that would improve tariff and restrictions on their famous sugarcane based wine
Gallery III
Its featuring the museum considerable holding of the work of Juan Luna and key contemporaries. Its highlights include works by Lorenzo Guerrero, Gaston o'forrell, and many more. Features are also nearly 100 works by Luna that formed part of historic donations of Graced Luna San Pedro Collection by the far east banked Trust Company in the early 1990s
Gallery IV ( Fundacion Santiago Hall )
Continuing the theme and late 19th century period of the previous gallery that works by Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo are featured together with sculptures Isabelo Tampinco gift from Ernesto and Aracell Salas.
Gallery V
This galley works by the Polymath and National Hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal. it is including four original sculptures and one fine drawing form his 1886 in Berlin.
The works of the great modernists of Philippines art and featuring important works by Victorio Edades, Diosdado Lorenzo and many more.
A gallery dedicated to the progress of the medicine in Philippines. In a four set paintings by Carlos V. Francisco. These extraordinary works were placed on indefinite loan to the national museum by the University of the Philippines to secure their preservation for future generations.
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