Our 82nd entry in this blog is our trip to Puzzle Mansion in Tagaytay, Cavite.  This is quite an interesting mini museum for me as I also love puzzles very much.  Here we have the group arriving at the mansion, which hosts a collection of jigsaw puzzle which is recognized as the biggest in the world according to Guinness.  This attraction opened last 2012.

The building occupied by the Puzzle Mansion started as a rest house for the family of puzzle collector, Georgina Gil-Lacuna and also as a private display site for Gil-Lacuna’s finished puzzles. They learned through the internet that the biggest recognized collector of puzzles was a woman from Brazil who has over 230 puzzles. Gil-Lacuna at that time had 800 puzzles.  In November 19, 2012 she was proclaimed by Guinness to be the new holder of the feat, with 1,030 puzzles finished at the time of the proclamation. –en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_Mansion

Here we have photos of me and Papa Dave, with our very funny and amusing guide who always insists to take pictures of us like some prenup shoots. hehe 🙂 In October 2014, it was reported that the museum hosts about 1,500 puzzles.

The collection of the museum dates back in the 1980s when its founder bought a 5,000-pieces Mickey Mouse jigsaw puzzle from Hong Kong for her then 2-year-old son Gino thinking it had only 500 pieces. She will then finish around a thousand puzzles in the next 30 years which will form part of the museum’s collection. –wiki

Puzzles of various materials form the collection such as wood, cardboard and plastic puzzles. In terms of form the museum hosts flat, spherical, 3D and “4D” puzzles. The puzzles in the collection also features various genres and subjects such as people, nature, historical event, religious figures, fictional characters, cartoons, corporate ads, as well as reproduction of paintings by famous artists. Among the most difficult to accomplish puzzles for Gil-Lacuna was the 10,000 piece puzzle which featured Diego Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas which took 300 hours over 7 months to finish due to most of the puzzle’s pieces being solid black. –wiki.

We enjoyed our stay at the puzzle mansion.  It was one of the unique concept of a museum we have been.  Hope to be back next time! 🙂