The National Museum of the Philippines is correct that the Relief Map is not classified as cultural property because under RA 10066 it is classified higher—It is an Important Cultural Property .
Park, where Relief Map is located, from the National Parks Development Committee, an agency of the Department of Tourism, to NMP. RA 11333 gave the NMP jurisdiction of this portion of the park to create a master plan for and to build a National Museum Complex. The law also awarded the NMP jurisdiction over the disposition of the land so they could sell and donate. RA 11333, however, did not give the NMP authority to destroy cultural property within the National Museum complex.
When RA 11333 was signed on April 26, 2019, it made the National Museum answerable only to the President of the Republic of the Philippines THE MAN IN CHARGE Teodoro "Ka Doroy" Valencia was a print and broadcast journalist and columnist. He was head of the Parks Committee and was responsible for developing the Rizal Park into one of the best parks in Asia
granddaughters in his home in Makati. I remember a man of presence and dignity. There was a stillness to him as he read the newspaper. The National Museum demolished Mendoza’s sculpture, the Relief Map of the Philippines, to pave the way for the revival of the Burnham plan