Bahay Tsinoy Museum, a museum of Chinese in Philippine life (henceforth Bahay Tsinoy), is the premier cultural and lifestyle museum depicting the lives of the Chinese in the Philippines from precolonial to contemporary periods. Inaugurated on Jan. 19, 1999 and formally opened to the public on Feb. 1, 1999, Bahay Tsinoy documents, interprets and communicates to a diverse audience the evolution of the Tsinoy or Chinese Filipino, in order to propagate and perpetuate the imprint, impact and influence of the Tsinoy ethnic minority in mainstream Philippine society.
