The Casa Gorordo Museum before it was built to a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value was a simple house built by Alejandro Reynes Y Rosales in the 19th. It was bought by a Spanish merchant in 1863 by the name of Juan Isidro de Gorordo, thus the name Casa Gorordo. Four generations of the Gorordo family dwell in this house including the first Filipino bishop of Cebu, Juan Gorordo, in 1910-1932.
Casa Gorordo
The house was acquired by the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc (RAFI) in 1980. It was refurnished and later made as a public museum. The Casa Gorordo has been declared a National Historical Landmark in 1991 by the NHI.
It is located a stone-throw away from the Yap-Sandiego Ancestral House. It is open during weekdays on regular office hours. Children and adults alike enjoy the old stuffs that can be found inside the museum as well as stay in the 2nd floor and take a glimpse of how the rich lives in the past.
