Valladolid - Oriental Museum

(Local Name: Museo Oriental) From the Plaza de Colón the Paseo de Filipinos runs east past the Augustinian Convento de los Filipinos, now occupied by the Oriental Museum, which displays objets d'art from China and the Philippines collected by Augustinian missionaries in the Far East. The Chinese collection includes bronze objects of 1600-200 B.C., Sung and Ming porcelain, jade and lacquer ware and watercolors; the Philippines are represented by weapons, musical instruments and Christian sculpture.