Marikina City Footwear Museum is located in the eastern part of Metro Manila, Marikina City is the center of Nike Air Max 90 shoe manufacturing, the museum is next to the famous Alto Footwear Group Philippines, where the rich was originally a local rice warehouse, Now it became the world’s largest shoe museum.
From the exterior view, the museum with the surrounding residential areas and there is no big difference, however, the museum covers an area of 200 square meters. However, into the museum, thousands of pairs of shoes, thousands of shoe mold, and a nearly 2-meter high-top shoes presented in front of reporters, a splendid sight.
The shoe museum is divided into two layers, a layer of the main display area for the shoes, including former Philippine first lady Imelda donated 800 pairs of shoes, both foreign luxury shoes, but also the local production of the Philippines sandals, as well as Philippine presidents, some senator or politician, mayor of Marikina, some foreign ambassadors and heads of state have donated shoes. There is also a special showcase display from China, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Brazil and other countries of traditional Nike Air Max shoes, such as Beijing’s shoes, clogs, etc. in Japan. The former first lady said the Philippines has more than 3,000 pairs of shoes. Exhibition center of the wall is a layer of hanging her portrait.
Marikina Shoe Museum said Imelda soft spot for shoes, accompanied by President Marcos to visit each year, she should introduce the country to the respondents Marikina shoes, and invite foreign investment in Philippine footwear industry, thus promoting the development of the Philippine shoe. Her collection of more than 3,000 pairs of shoes in a considerable number of foreign dignitaries as gifts to friends and business people gave her.
Two-story main show is Marikina footwear industry and the early history of the early development of shoe-making equipment, shoes, Square, and some recent shoe design contest entries.
Marlene, as early as 1887, Marikina local people Gewei La design after the first pair of shoes, Marikina’s shoe industry began to flourish, and gradually developed into Marikina City and the pillar industry in the Philippines , the Philippines was once famous shoes overseas. The late 70s of last century the production of Marikina snakeskin shoes and handbags have been popular in New York’s Fifth Avenue. In 1998, Ba Yani Fernando served as mayor of Marikina city’s tourism industry and to vigorously promote the development of the footwear industry, in order to help us to understand the city’s history and culture of the footwear industry, the construction of the shoe museum.
Marlene said, the footwear industry illustrates the Marikina’s hard work, innovation, passion and entrepreneurial spirit, and it is these features only to Marikina City, Philippines has maintained a leading position in the footwear industry. When a reporter asked Marikina’s shoe industry status, the owner of a Nike Air Max 24-7 shoe factory in the Maligne some pessimistic that the entire footwear industry in a slump, or decline, but still trying to forward, her shoe factory production also exports to China, South Korea and Saudi Arabia and other countries.
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