Padre Burgos House — National Museum
The museum is the ancestral house and birthplace of priest and patriot Jose Burgos, who advocated for political and church reforms in favor of native clergymen during the Spanish colonial era. For his views he was executed for sedition in 1872.
The Burgos House is one of the historical landmarks in Vigan, a city declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The museum displays material artefacts of the Ilocano, Kankana-ey, and Itneg ethnolinguistic groups. These include wooden plates and bowls, burial coffins and chairs, musical intruments, weaponry, weaving implements, texticles, jars, trade ceramics.