MUSEUM-AUDITORIUM. An aerial perspective of the rear portion of the Bacolod City Museum-Auditorium soon to rise in Barangay Alijis. The construction of the first phase is more than halfway done, the Department of Public Works and Highway-Western Visayas said in a report released on Tuesday night (Aug. 30, 2022).(Image courtesy of LG+V Architect/Planners) BACOLOD CITY - The construction of the first phase of the PHP213-million Bacolod City Museum-Auditorium is more than halfway done, the Department of Public Works and Highway-Western Visayas (DPWH-6) said in a report released Tuesday night. The two-structure edifice, funded through the initiative of Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, sits on a portion of the 8.8-hectare land donated by the Yanson family in Barangay Alijis. In a statement, DPWH-6 Regional Director Nerie Bueno said during her recent visit to the site, she directed the contractor to expedite the construction and also instructed the project engineer to closely monitor. St
December 14, 2020 WITH the impending rise of two major government-funded projects in Bacolod City, Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said they envision the Negros Occidental capital city to become a center for culture and health in the country.
The Negrense senator, along with Mayor Evelio Leonardia and other local officials, led the groundbreaking of the P260-million museum-auditorium project dubbed, for the meantime, as Bacolod Museum/Auditorium in Barangay Alijis in the city on Saturday, December 12, 2020.
Zubiri, who funded the project, said the structure will put Bacolod City and Negros Occidental on the map of the cultural world of the Philippines.