The Culion Admission Register dating from 1906. The names and ages of those admitted are recorded. The date of death is also recorded.

There are extensive records of children who were born to people on Culion. These children were kept under observation for leprosy and if they showed no signs of developing the disease, they were often adopted by people elsewhere.

These discharge records were falling apart every time they were touched.

These records may be all that remain of those who were either sent to Culion or were born there. In other instances, people have been able to trace their families because of these records

There is an extensive photographic collection. This photograph shows how people with the disease were collected throughout the Philippines and escorted under armed guard to Culion

In the early days, many people arrived on Culion in very poor condition and did not live very long.

Arrivals here are separated by a fence.

The records required appropriate storage so that they could be preserved.

The old Museum was full of fascinating artefacts.

Light, Heat, Sea Air, and Dust were damaging the records

The Museum was home for a colony of bats

Under the supervision of Dr Arturo Cunanan, with funding from Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation and with advice and voluntary dedication from Ricardo Punzalan and Alexandra Bothelo and Mimi Santos from the U of the Philippines, the work on Culion Museum began.

Rooms were prepared for the exhibits

Records were removed from the old binders and cleaned and prepared for storage of the Culion archives

This photograph was reproduced onto fabric and transported from Manila by ship.

Ricky Punzalan (on the right, in the background) directs the placing of the mounted image.

The backdrop to one of the first rooms in the Museum creates the illusion that the visitor is walking into the ward.

Mimi Santos and one of the workers from Culion place the photographs

This display shows a typical hospital bed. The Museum display was in its final stages of preparation.

Photographs showing the results of Treatment

Chaulmoogra oil was prepared on Culion

People who could not walk were carried in this stretcher

Culion syringes and other medical equipment

The display cases tell of the history of Culion. The mural was painted by a resident of the island.

This small room recaptures something of the heart breaking experience of the women and their babies. A photograph at the end of this room shows the mothers looking through the glass at the babies being held up by the sisters.

Culion had its own police force

Mr Sasakawa, Dr Gopal and the Minister for Health opened the Museum

Dr Cunanan explains the Museum to everyone at the opening

First ones through the door at the opening of the Museum