Photography & image rights

How you may use the museum’s images, how to request them, and who holds the rights to the works shown here.

Image credits

Museum photographs on this website were taken by Amaze Studios. The photographs are copyright the Philippine Folklife Museum Foundation; all rights reserved.

Credit each use as: Photograph © Philippine Folklife Museum Foundation, by Amaze Studios.

Using images from this website

You are welcome to share pages from this website for personal, educational, and non-commercial purposes; please link to the page rather than copying the image.

Reproducing a museum image in print or online publications, exhibitions, merchandise, advertising, film, or any commercial work requires written permission from the Foundation.

Photography at the museum

Please ask museum staff before photographing in the gallery. Flash, tripods, filming, and photography for publication need the Foundation’s permission in advance.

Press

Journalists and photographers can request images of the collection, exhibitions, and museum events, or permission to film, by writing to the Foundation.

Requesting images

Send requests through the contact form and include:

  • the work’s title, as shown on its page, and a link to that page;
  • how you plan to use the image;
  • the publication or project: title, publisher or organization, author, date, and print run or audience;
  • the languages and places of distribution;
  • when you need the file.

The Foundation will reply with availability and any terms that apply.

Works with other rights holders

Some images and texts on this website belong to others and are shown with their credit. Their rights stay with their holders; please contact them for reuse.

  • Book plates reproduced from Philippine Costume by José “Pitoy” Moreno (1995), credited with their page numbers.
  • Licensed photographs, such as the piña fiber extraction photograph by Jeff Werner (CC BY 2.5), credited with their license.
  • The Rizal library: complete editions from Project Gutenberg, public domain in the United States; status elsewhere may differ.
  • The Visit map: map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database License).
  • AI-generated and AI-restored images are always labeled as such and are not historical evidence.

The Foundation’s terms

The Foundation may decline any request. Permission is never exclusive, and the Foundation is not responsible for claims by third parties. Reproducing, distributing, or altering images without permission may infringe copyright under United States law (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.).