continuing our journey to the museum & other historical places!

Museum here we go!

Whenever someone mention museum, what's the first thing on your mind? BORED?! Oh well that's what people usually think about museum. Now, Let's have a look at the museums in Malacca! We went to the Literature Museum, Democracy Government Museum and last but not least the Muzium yang DIpertuan Negeri. 


Let's start off with the LITERATURE MUSEUM. It is a green building with ancient malay designs. It actually looks like some kind of Rumah Melayu.

 Tadaaaaa! Sneak peak on the outlook of the building!

The literature Museum

According to the information that I've found, the objective of The Literature Museum is
to keep and preserve literary works from the earliest times to the present for posterity, promote the development of literature, and honour Malay writers and poets of note by featuring them in museum displays and exhibitions. 
The Literature Museum is located at a building near the Stadthuys. The Literature museum pays particular attention on the Malays history of writing and their literature, right from the Melaka Sultanate period till the present. It exhibits important historical records of Melaka, such as the ‘Malay Annals’, ‘Hikayat Hang Tuah’, ‘Hukum Kanun Melaka’ .In the museum, I get to see the 
Traditional literary genres such as ‘pantun’, ‘gurindam’, ‘nazam’, and puisi (poetry). 

This is just so cool! Antique cameras and video cameras. Seeing the gadgets nowadays! Such a big development and transformation!

Kulit wayang. It is one of the art culture that I find really impressive! I wish that I would have a chance to watch a Kulit wayang show!

Hang Tuah! It looks kind of creepy to me. There are a lot of dolls and statues of the famous people in the Museum.

The awesome paintings outside the museum. They are the paintings of the Poets such as Abdul Ahmad Said.

Literature Museum Entrance Fees
Adult: RM5.00
Children/Student: RM2.00

Literature Museum Operation Hour
9.00 AM- 5.30 PM (Open Daily)

Democratic Museum Malacca

Outer View of the Democratic Museum. According to the locals, The State Assembly would build a museum trace the practice of parliamentary democracy and development in independent Malaysia.

It is hoped that the establishment of this museum would give Malaysians and foreign visitors to have a greater insight into the Malaysia's constitutional system and democracy in Malaysia governmment. This Museum is built on the 31st August, 1961 by the Governor of Melaka, TYT Tun Haji Abdul Malek bin Yusuf S.M.N., D.M.K.

The entrance fee for adults is RM2.00 whereas for children or students is RM0.50.  The operation hour for the museum is 9AM to 6PM. (closed on Monday )

The Parliament Building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The Governor Museum ( Musium yang Di-pertua negeri)

This Governor museum was Formerly called Seri Melaka, the museum is built the former official residence and office of the Dutch Governor of Malacca on St Paul's Hill.The museum showcases the personal belongings of the various governors of Malacca since independence, beginning with the first Governor of Malacca, Tun Leong Yew Koh. The building was used as the official residence of the Tuan Yang Terutama, which is the title of the governor, until September 1996. The Governor's Museum was officially opened to the public in 2002.

 The operation hours: 900AM to 5PM daily. The entrance fee is RM5.00 for adults and RM2.00 for children or students.

One of the formal wear found in the museum.

To sum up this visit to the museum, even though youngsters nowadays would feel that visiting the museum is really boring and wasting time. I do gain some knowledge from these historical places. It is really important that we know the history of our own country and like the literature museum. I get to see all the poems and literature produced by all the amazing people. Before this, the only poet that I know is Abdul Ahmad Said at least now I knew  few more of them! *p/s The air conditioner in  the museum is really cooling! It is such a nice place to go under this hot weather in Malacca! haha