ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an environment in which a scenario might exist which differentied between public and private that is not so easy and where multiple stakeholders are willing to participate. The situation offers another model for museum governance for the Philippines a model that engages current discussions regarding the regulation and deregulation of museums. In the Philippines, the sustainability of museums seems a contradiction. The usual reason that is offered for why museums wither and die in the country is because there is no money. In a part of the world that sees museums as a luxury and culture as the privilege of the elite, the tension between democratizing access and private interests contributes to the general lack of interest in museums. The chapter has been involved with local government-sponsored cultural programs in a number of Southern Luzon communities, including Tayabas, Mauban and Lucena in Quezon, as well as in Los Banos and Paete in Laguna.
