Last Friday, I returned to San Remigio together with our National Museum partners Dr. Ame Garong, Jose Santiago and Dante Posadas to install and inaugurate the traveling exhibition sponsored by USC Museum entitled "The Iron Age in San Remigio". The venue was the void deck of the San Remigio Cultural Center, right below where the joint USC-Univ of Guam-UP Diliman archaeological team is billeted while carrying out another round of excavations.
A day later, we inaugurated the exhibit with the presence of local dignitaries led by Fr. Tata Torres of the Parish of San Remigio, together with the Mayor's secretary, Rodney, and the Ruth Hermoso, San Remigio Tourism Officer. It was with Ruthy, as she is popularly called, that I coordinated the holding of this exhibit for two weeks while the excavations are unfolding at the parish church site.. A sumptuous dinner, sponsored by Mayor Jay Olivar, then followed the viewing of exhibits. Mayor Jay unfortunately was in Manila and could not attend the opening rites.
We are now busy inviting high schools around to come and view the exhibits which will run until June 21, 2011.
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| The ribbon-cutting ceremony. |
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| Putting the artifacts in their vitrines a few hours before the opening. |
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| A peek of the display panel boards before the opening. |
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| The archaeologists and students from Univ of Guam, Univ of Hawaii and Univ of the Philippines are our guests. |
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| The exhibit area and displays. |
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| The exhibition hall. |
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| The dinner courtesy of Mayor Jay Olivar. |
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| From left: Joe Santiago, Jobers R. Bersales, Sao Nguyen of Vietnam, Ame Garong, Donna Arriola and Ruth Hermoso. |
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| The multi-nation group of archaeologists and their students awaiting the opening rites. |
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