What a Wonderful World: Muzium Negara (Malaysia's National Museum)

At the age of 35, I finally set my foot to our wonderful National Museum which is located at the heart of Malaysia. Better late than never! When I was in Standard 6, I joined a school field trip to Kuala Lumpur (KL). The itinerary was packed. Due to bad time management, we spent longer time than what we supposed at the nearby Planetarium. Although we missed the chance to enter the museum on time, we still enjoyed some parts of locomotive 'parked' at the parking area.

During last Christmas week, I grab the opportunities to take a tour to National Museum that only 700m away from the hotel we (my husband and I) stayed; The Majestic Hotel. The entrance fee to each museum is only RM 2 per adult (Malaysian).

There are four existing galleries at this vast museum. From the Early History, The Malay Kingdom, The Colonial Era, to Malaysia Today. Personally, I enjoyed myself at The Malay Kingdom Gallery at the ground floor and The Colonial Era on the first floor. What I appreciate the most; includes the artifacts, the traditional weapons, coins, accessories, mural, costume, the design, the detailing, the motifs, the fabrics, the materials, the origin... and of course, the story behind it. Indeed, museum is the place for histories. And history is real~

Not taking much photo when I was there. Were busy enjoy educating ourselves.

If you are travelling by car like us, you will enter this entrance (left picture) first where you can find the locomotive (the one I mentioned earlier) as well as two other museums; The Malay-World Ethnology Museum and Orang Asli Crafts Museum (Aborigine). But if you are taking public transportation, you need to walk about 500m from KL Sentral. And you will straight away find the main entrance of the National Museum (middle photo). Not sure? Better use Grab services.

A replica of famous Candi Borobudur.

Photo on the right. 1) Scent Bottle 2) Tobacco Box - old days they called it as Celepa

Of course I'm amused with the different types of Flinklock Pistol, Keris, Tengkolok Diraja, replica of the mining machine, etc.

But here are the no-longer-existed notes of Sarawak and North Borneo. They comes in coins as well. When Sarawak and Sabah joined Tanah Melayu in 1963; their own notes were no longer been used.