Imelda Marcos's Shoes Museum

Marcos's shoes

The world's best-known shoe collector, former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, 10th Philippine President of the Philippines - December 30, 1965 – February 25, 1986 - has opened a museum in which most of the exhibits are her own footwear.

The Marikina City Footwear Museum in Manila contains hundreds of pairs of shoes, it's almost 3000 pairs, many of them found in the presidential palace when Imelda and her husband, President Ferdinand Marcos, fled the Philippines in 1986.

"This museum is making a subject of notoriety into an object of beauty," Mrs Marcos told reporters.