LEARNING HAVEN The 80-year-old ancestral home along Lizares Avenue in Bacolod City has been transformed into HOPEtopia, an interactive children’s museum where young visitors explore a storybook-inspired world during an immersive guided tour. —CARLA P. GOMEZ
BACOLOD CITY—A vibrant forest of trees, animals and flowers appears to have leapt straight out of a children’s storybook and into an ancestral home along 54th Lizares Avenue in Bacolod City.
The setting is HOPEtopia, a newly opened interactive children’s museum, learning center and activity hub managed by the Negrense Volunteers for Change (NVC) Foundation. The space serves as a whimsical environment for environmental education and a renewed love for reading.
The museum draws inspiration from “Our Common Home: A Laudato Si’ Story,” written by Australia-based Filipina author Bernadette Silvana. The book, rooted in Pope Francis’ encyclical on caring for the Earth, promotes ecological responsibility as a message for people of all faiths.
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