The eastern side of the museum as viewed from Plaza Hamabar.

The Cathedral Museum of Cebu, a brainchild of the late Msgr. Virgilio Yap, is the permanent repository of some of the tangible treasures of the archdiocese of Cebu. Housed in the 19th-century former rectory of the cathedral, the museum originally occupied a small room in the same building exhibiting a handful of displays until the entire building itself was rehabilitated and adaptively reused as an ecclesiastical museum.

The museum’s courtyard.

A view of the southern portion of the museum from the cathedral.