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AGUINALDO SHRINE BALIUAG MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

(Kawit, Cavite) (Baliwag Town Proper, Cagayan


(National and Local Museum and Heritage) Valley road)
(National and Local Museum and
Heritage)

Background:
The Aguinaldo Shrine is The Baliuag Museum and
a National Shrine of the Philippines Library, or Museo ng Baliuag
located in Kawit, Cavite in (Tahanan ng Kasaysayan atKalinangan
the Philippines, where ng Baliwag, formerly known
the Philippine Declaration of as "Lumang Municipio" or Old
Independence from Spain was declared Municipal Building) is the town’s
on June 12, 1898. To commemorate the center for historical and cultural
event, now known as Araw ng Kalayaan heritage.
or  Independence Day, a national The landmark Baliuag Municipal
holiday, the Philippine flag is Library and Museum is owned by the
raised here by top government Local Government. The heritage-
officials on June12 each year. The historic Filipino-colonial
house is now a museum. The shrine is mansion Bahay na Bato the official
the ancestral home of  Emilio repository (established in 1998 as
Aguinaldo, officially the a natural history and ethnography
first President of the museum) of Baliuag
Philippines, the only president of and Bulacan province.Baliuag Museo
the First Philippine Republic. The is located in Town Proper, Old
house was built in 1845made from Municipal Bldg., Cagayan Valley
wood and that hand reconstructed in Road,Poblacion, Baliuag, Bulacanin
1849. Here Aguinaldo was born on the Republic of the Philippines, It 
March 22,1869.The property which is is 150 meters from theheritage St.
adjacent to a river, was expanded to Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag. 
include Aguinaldo The century-old Museo ng
Park,a park in front of the house cr Baliuag is administered by Heherson
eated for the Philippine Centennial Cruz (Museum and Librarian III In-
celebration of 1998. The park with a charge, Librarian).Baliuag, Bulacan
long promenade and two long pools. was the first Municipio ever created
Previously the house was fronted by during the American regime in the
a busy street. Philippines, on May 6, 1899, five
days before the fateful "Sabang
Battle".

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