A Glimpse of The Museo Sugbo w/ the Pre-Colonial Gallery
Museo Sugbo is housed at what once called Carcel de Cebu, a provincial jail of Cebu. "A GLIMPSE OF THE MUSEO SUGBO W/ THE PRE-COLONIAL GALLERY" Designed in 1869 by Domingo de Escodrillas, the lone arcithect in Cebu at that time, the Carcel de Cebu was originally proposed as the Carcel del Distrito, the main prison or the Visayas District. This accounts for its relatively large size at that time it was built. After a flurry of endorsements and independent review in Manila, the project was approved and construction commence d on 1870. It is believed that most of the coral stone blocks from the Parian Church which was ordered closed by the Bishop after winning a long-drawn court case against its parishioners in the 1850's were used to built part of the Carcel. After over twenty years of used, a renovation was ordered in 1892. Records are not clear as to when the second storey o...