MARCOS MAUSOLEUM & MUSEUM(Philippines)

The Marcos Museum and Mausoleum was located in Batac, Ilocos Norte showcases memorabilia of the late Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos and a large grand and depressing tomb housing his embalm remains which are contained in a vacuum-sealed glass coffin. Ferdinand Edralín Marcos (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was the tenth president of the Philippines, serving from 1965 to 1986. In 1972, he instituted an authoritarian regime that allowed him to stay in power until elating it in 1981. He was elected the same year to another full term which was blemished by personal health issues, political unprofessional conduct and human rights violations by the military. In 1986, he was re-elected for the fourth time in a uncertain snap election. As a result, that same year he was removed from office quietly by the "People Power" EDSA Revolution. He has the peculiarity of being the last Senate President to be elected to the presidency and being the first president to be elected to two successive full terms.
 Within the property of the Marcos family is a cluster of three houses and the hallowed grounds of the mausoleum. The Museum is the first structure seen from the main street and is the one which follows the lines of a colonial wood-and-brick house, with solid ground floor walls and an upper storey of wood decorated with floral motifs. The Mausoleum is a cube of adobe blocks and is stepped towards the top of the structure. The dark interior is divided into an entry foyer in which are exhibited old English standards and a bust of the former president.
Two decades after Marcos was chased from power, he still draws the faithful and the curious from this farming town. Displayed in an adobe mausoleum, his plentifully waxed corpse lies in a family tribute, decorated in military medals and surrounded by faux flowers while Gregorian chants echo softly. Scores of school children visit nearly everyday, filing past souvenir peddlers for a look of the deposed dictator whom residents of Ilocos Norte province fondly call "Apo," or the Old man.