Fort Pilar

The Fort Pilar Museum in Zamboanga City was started and built up through the deliberate endeavors of the Department of Tourism, the Department of Public Highways, the City Government of Zamboanga and the National Museum. This exhibition hall is arranged inside the memorable bastions of Fort Pilar and is named after the benefactor holy person of the city, the Nuestra Senora del Pilar.

Zamboanga City is the most imperative city of Zamboanga del Sur, one of the three regions in Western Mindanao.The gallery branch opened its way to the general population with an uncommon display on Philippine Contemporary Art. The lasting display on the Marine Life of Zamboanga, Basilan and Sulu was opened at the second floor of Structure II indicating 400 types of marine life examples in monster dioramas. All the while opened was an uncommon display on the eighteenth Century Relics from the Griffin Shipwreck at the ground floor, which harmonized with the formal initiation of the structure.

At that point previous congresswoman and Zamboanga City Mayor Maria Clara Lobregat, one of the staunch supporters of Fort Pilar Museum, and the metro disapproved of occupants of the city incredibly added to the acknowledgment of improvement extends in the gallery.