Jose Eleazar R. Bersales, Ph.D., Director of the University of San Carlos Museum, was unanimously reelected as Head of the National Committee on Museums (NCOM) of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the government’s closest equivalent to a culture ministry or department. He will serve until 2025. 

The NCCA is the overall policy-making body in charge of the preservation, development, and promotion of Philippine arts and culture. As one of NCCA’s national committees, the NCOM is considered as integral part of the cultural arm of the government. 

As such, the NCOM under the leadership of Dr. Bersales will continue its mission to make museums an effective tool of learning and to encourage the public to know more about our country’s heritage. 

The election was held yesterday on the side of the three-day Philippine Museums Congress at the Ayala Museum in Makati. 

The NCOM is composed of elected representatives of nine regional museum associations as well with the representatives of the National Museum of the Philippines and the National Historical Commission of the Philippines as ex-officio members.

Dr. Bersales ran as representative of the Central Visayas Association of Museums. Inc. (CVAM) which is headed by USC Museum Curator Ma. Regina E. Yoma. 

As reelected NCOM head, Bersales will also represent it in the NCCA Sub-Commission for Cultural Heritage (SCH) which will elect its commissioner to the NCCA next week.

USC Museum Press Release