National Museum of Fine Arts (Manila)

National Museum of Fine Arts
Pambansang Museo ng Sining
The National Museum of Fine Arts in 2015
Location within Metro Manila
Former names	Old Legislative Building National Art Gallery
General information
Status	Complete
Architectural style	Neoclassical
Town or city	Manila
Country	Philippines
Coordinates	14°35′13.01″N 120°58′52.76″E / 14.5869472°N 120.9813222°E / 14.5869472; 120.9813222
Construction started	1918
Completed	July 16,1926
Renovated	1950
Destroyed	February 1945
Design and construction
Architect	Ralph Harrington Doane, Antonio Toledo, Juan M. Arellano
Civil engineer	Pedro Siochi y Angeles (1886-1951) who is a native of Malabon and graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Ghent, Belgium
Main contractor	the Pedro Siochi and Company

The National Museum of Fine Arts (Filipino: Pambansang Museo ng Sining), formerly known as the National Art Gallery, is an art museum in Manila, Philippines. It is located on Padre Burgos Avenue across from the National Museum of Anthropology in the eastern side of Rizal Park. The museum, owned and operated by the National Museum of the Philippines, was founded in 1998 and houses a collection of paintings and sculptures by classical Filipino artists such as Juan Luna, Félix Resurrección Hidalgo and Guillermo Tolentino.

The neoclassical building was built in 1921 and originally served to house the various legislative bodies of the Philippine government. Known as the Old Legislative Building (also the Old Congress Building), it was the home of the bicameral congress from 1926 to 1972, and the Philippine Senate from 1987 to 1997.

The building was originally designed by Bureau of Public Works (precursor of the Department of Public Works and Highways) Consulting Architect Ralph Harrington Doane and Antonio Toledo in 1918, and was intended to be the future home of the National Library of the Philippines, according to the Plan of Manila of Daniel H. Burnham. Meanwhile, a Capitol building for the Philippine Legislature (established on October 16, 1916) was to rise on Wallace Field, just south of the library (the location is now María Y. Orosa Street in Rizal Park). Instead, the Philippine Legislature decided to move into the Library building in 1926, and changes to the building's layout were done accordingly by architect Juan M. Arellano. It was built under the supervision of the construction firm Pedro Siochi and Company and the building therefore became known as the Legislative Building. The Second Regular Session of the 7th Philippine Legislature was formally opened on the inauguration of the building on July 16, 1926 in the presence of Governor-General Leonard Wood, then Senate President Manuel L. Quezon, House Speaker Manuel Roxas, and Colonel Carmi A. Thompson, envoy of President Calvin Coolidge of the United States. It was concurrently the headquarters of the National Library from 1928 to 1944.