Executive Order No.

118
Presidential Commision on Culture and the Arts in 1987

Republic Act 7356

National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA)
Art Promotion and Preservation
Importance of having an art center in the Philippines
 Nation’s Pride
Art is the heritage that is
essential in building the
nation and ensuring
democracy.
What are the different
institutions of art in the
country?
National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
The NCCA is the country’s “over-all
policy making body, coordinating, and
grants giving agency for the
preservation, development, and
promotion of the Philippine arts and
culture.”

This serves as the state’s initiative to

promote and develop art and culture
awareness in the country.
There are 6 arts and cultural
government agencies under
NCCA.
Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
CCP has been serving as the premier
venue in the Philippines for culture
and arts. It is responsible for bringing
together the different arts from
various regions to the entire country
and the whole world.
National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)
The NHCP was created with a vision
of “a Filipino society with citizens
informed of their history, who love
their country and are proud of their
cultural heritage.”

It carries out its mandate by

promoting “Philippine history and
cultural heritage through research,
dissemination, conservation, sites
management, and heraldry works.
National Museum of the Philippines
This is the country’s repository of
archaeological artifacts, national
treasures, and rare specimens found
and produced in the country.

The main task of this institution is to

solicit, document, preserve, exhibit,
and promote the natural and artificial
wonders of the Philippines.
National Library of the Philippines (NLP)
The NLP was then called the
American Circulating Library to serve
as “memorial to American servicemen
who died in Philippine soil.”

Their mandate at present is a

“repository of the printed and
recorded cultural heritage of the
country and other intellectual literary
and information sources.”
National Archives of the Philippines (NAP)
The NAP is guardian to over 400
documents from the Spanish era
dating 1552-1900 and various records
from the American period to the
Republic.
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF)
This was created via Republic Act No.
7104: “Congress shall establish a
national language commission
composed of representatives of
various regions and disciplines which
shall undertake, coordinate, and
promote researches for the
development, propagation, and
preservation of Filipino and other
Philippine languages.”
Done.