Museum of Vintage Glasses of Negros Occidental sparks interest
I had been raring to stop by this museum located at Brgy. Sum-ag, Bacolod City for a long time already. It is located by the street where we pass by each time we go to Bacolod City. Time is always running out because either we pass by the place on an early morning with some errands to do or we pass by there when it is already nighttime and time to go home. But it was by luck that I was able to pass by the museum while the sky is still with light and the drizzling of the rain stopped. The museum accommodates visitors by appointment only and I was doubly lucky on that day because the owner was around and so, on my first try to visit, I was able to enter the place and chat with the collector and curator Tomiko Casiano. According to Tomiko, he had visitors as far as Russia because he has some pieces from Russia (check the blue chalice held by my mom in the picture below), and the US (of course, because the pieces were from the Depression Era of the US) as well ...