Jumalon Museum, Butterfly Sanctuary and Art Gallery

Jumalon Museum, Butterfly Sanctuary and Art Gallery is a private museum, art gallery and nature reserve run by the Jumalon Foundation. It is located in Macopa St. Basak, Pardo, Cebu City, Philippines.cite web | url = http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g298460-d320855-r14779618-Jumalon_Butterfly_Sanctuary-Cebu_City_Cebu_Visayas.html | title = Jumalon Butterfly Sanctuary | work = Things To Do | publisher = Trip Advisor | accessdate = 2008-05-06]

History

Built in 1974cite web | url = http://www.globalpinoy.com/ch/ch_category.php?category=museums&name=Jumalon+Museum,+Butterfly+Sanctuary+and+Art+Gallery&table=ch_museums&startpage=46&endpage=60 | title = Jumalon Museum, Butterfly Sanctuary and Art Gallery | work = Cultural Heritage | publisher = Global Pinoy | accessdate = 2008-05-06] it originally served as a residence of the late Cebuano lepidopterist Julian Jumalon..

Dr. Jumalon amassed a vast collection of butterflies through his travels and by trading local Philippine species with foreign ones. Jumalon's fascination with Lepidopterans did not just end in having them preserved and framed. He wanted the butterflies close by especially the rare ones. So to invite these insects he planted his residence with butterfly food plants. He also caught live specimens and released them in his garden.

At his death, a foundation was created by his children to foster to his collection and the compound which, prior to the founder's death, has become a tourist attraction.

Today, museum is currently managed by Dr. Jumalon's daughter.

Attractions

Inside the compound is a salon and garden. The garden is a collection of a hundred butterfly food plant species. Among these plants flutters around 50 local and foreign species of butterflies. Some rare species are kept in captivity. It is also a residence of the beautiful "Papilio daedalus".

Inside the salon is Dr. Jumalon's collection of butterflies and other insects. Also found inside is the histories of butterfly species. The salon also houses the paintings and other works of Dr. Jumalon, who was also an artist. Most popular among his works is his mosaics made entirely of butterly wings (lepido mosaic).cite web | url = http://www.wordtravels.com/Travelguide/Countries/Philippines/Regions/Cebu | title = Cebu | work = Cebu Travel Guide | publisher = Word Travel | accessdate = 2008-05-06] These mosaics depicts several places around Cebu City. There is a mosaic of Colon Street as how it looked during Dr. Jumalon's times.

References

External Links

* [http://wayblima.com Wa'y Blima! Cebu]
* [http://research.yale.edu/peabody/jls/htms/1950s/1958-12(3-4)115-Jumalon.htm Journal of the Lepideptorist's Society]
* [http://www.globalpinoy.com Global Pinoy]
* [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Papilio_daedalus Papilio daedalus in Wikispecies]