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Museo Sugbo (“Cebu Museum”) is a museum in Cebu CityPhilippines. The museum is located in the former Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) jail and is located four blocks away from Plaza Independencia. The museum is owned by the Cebu provincial government.

Museo Sugbo is housed in what was once called Cárcel de Cebú, the provincial jail of Cebu.

Designed in 1869 by Domingo de Escondrillas, the lone architect in Cebu at the time, the Cárcel de Cebú was originally proposed as the Cárcel del Distrito, the main prison for the Visayas District. This accounts for its relatively large size at the time it was built. After a flurry of endorsements and independent review in Manila, the project was approved and construction commenced around 1871. It is believed that most of the coral stone blocks from the Parian church – which was demolished in 1878 after the Bishop of Cebu won a long-drawn court case against its parishioners in the 1850s – were used to build parts of the cárcel. After twenty years of use, a renovation was ordered in 1892, which added more buildings behind the main structure that now serves as the first six galleries of the museum.