Casa Santa Museum

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Casa Santa Museum

The Casa Santa Museum is a public attraction of Jardin de Miramar located in Antipolo City, east of Metro Manila.

The museum features Casa Santa Houses, which contain collections of Santa Claus figurines and are internationally recognized. At present, it is currently considered to be the most extensive private collections of Santa Claus items in the world, with over 3,700 figures. Visitors can interact with the figurines and dolls.

History[]

The Casa Santa Museum started out as a small personal collection until it grew to a size where it needed a house where the Santa figurines could "live." The Casa Santa was then converted from a family rest house into a museum of Santa Claus collection in 1995. The house was remodeled by folk architect Rosario Encarnacion Tan, and the lighting design inside the museum was crafted by international Japanese light designer Shoko Matsumoto.

In December 2004, it was the cover of Starweek's Christmas and in Christmas 2008 appeared in the front page of the Philippine Inquirer. It has appeared in over 50 T.V. and movie productions -- Rated K, Wish Ko Lang, Unang Hirit, Magandang Umagang Bayan, US Girls, Boy and Kris. On international television, it was covered by two news agencies, Reuters and Associated Press.

In addition to the collection is a room full of miniature Christmas villages. A starter collection in the loft was displayed in 2010. After acquiring a significant number of mini- houses this year, it was given a room of its own. The village was designed by Bamboo Tonogbanua of Bacolod, himself a Christmas village collector.

In 2015 a newly renovated Santa's village was created by Christmas village miniature artist Bamboo Tonogbanua, an Ilonggo artist. The Casa Santa Playroom was designed to house small & big Santa stuffed toys collection.

References[]

External links[]

• Antipolo Travel Guide information^[1]