The Balangay Shrine Museum is a unit of the National Museum to preserve the “Balanghai” and now more popularly known as the “Butuan Boat” and other cultural materials associated with the boat like human & animal remains, coffins, pots, jewelries, hunting tools, ceramics and other items that were excavated in the area. Only in Butuan, in no other locality in the Philippines or in Southeast Asia for the matter, has there been such rare and extensive recovery of these maritime vessels and the cultural relics associated with an affluent seafaring people in this part of the globe.

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