Motag Living Museum

Motag Living Museum offers an immersive experience into traditional Filipino farming, weaving, and cooking methods, allowing visitors to participate in activities like rice planting and coconut grating.

Planning your visit

Motag Living Museum sits on Panay island near the jetty crossing to Boracay, and it exists as a deliberate counterweight to what Boracay has become. Where the island is beach resorts and nightlife, Motag reconstructs a traditional Filipino farming village and puts visitors to work in it: planting rice barefoot in a flooded paddy, grating coconut on a wooden stool, husking and pounding grain, weaving, and cooking over wood fire in a nipa hut.

Local villagers run the activities and the museum functions as a community enterprise, which gives the interaction more substance than a staged performance. Meals are cooked and eaten as part of the visit.

It suits families and anyone wanting a day away from the beach, and it is genuinely hands-on rather than demonstrative — you will get muddy.

It sits on the mainland, so most visitors reach it as an organised excursion from Boracay including the boat transfer.

Bookable options include guided tours from Boracay and formats combining the museum with ATV rides through the surrounding countryside. Current availability is listed below.