More than fifty years ago, President Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. placed the Philippines into martial rule—a period remembered for its rampant human rights violations, media censorship, and corruption. Alongside these, the Marcos dictatorial regime inaugurated various institutions, some of which are in the University of the Philippines, the dictator’s alma mater. With the Marcoses ousted from the country through a revolution in 1986, traces of these institutions have survived, and with them are collections (artworks, photographs, archival materials, etc.) they have gathered. As these are remnants of the dynamics that transpired during that juncture in history, managing them is an intricate activity that inevitably implicates their nature as conflicted heritage. It examines these objects in relation to their institution's histories to understand further the heterogeneity of the community, the nuances in lingering patronage relationships, and the courage to condemn historical wrongs. This is especially relevant at present as the dictator’s son has slowly but successfully crawled his way to the presidency, bolstered by historical revisionism, which instrumentalized the inheritances from the patriarch’s regime as arguments for validating martial rule.