[1] The museum's permanent exhibit covers cultural heritage of Iloilo and Panay from weaponries and armories during the Filipino-Spanish war in the 1800s, to stone-age potteries and traded potteries from China and Thailand, sculptures in the Spanish era, jars and ceramics during the Japanese invasion, fossils, and jewelries.

Parts of a British sunken ship and war remnants are also good finds inside the museum.

Since Iloilo has a number of baroque churches and the people are known to have a strong faith, the section of the museum also displays different sizes of religious figures.

The image below is a late 18th-century high relief carving in hardwood, originally polychromed and showing traces of gesso.

Monica, shown with a bare breast, probably recalling how she nourished her son with her milk.