National museum (Malaysia)
The national museum ( Muzium Negara ) is a museum located at jalan damansara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The museum is situated in close proximity to the perdana Lake Gardens and it provides an overview of Malaysian history and culture. The museum was established by 1963.
Malaysian national museum showing the southeast Asian history, Malaysian culture and Ethnology.
The southeast Asia has been in use since world war 2. The region has been further divided into two distinct subregions:
Mainland southeast Asia, which comprises the modern states of Vietnam, laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and West Malaysia, and maritime southeast.
The culture of Malaysia draws on the varied cultures ot the different people of Malaysia. The first people to live in the area were native Malays who moved there from the mainland Asia in ancient times. Chinese and Indian cultural influences Malaysia.
Ethnology is the branch that analyzes the characteristics of different people and the relationship between them.
The National Museum was established on the site of the former Selangor Museum. It was built by the British and Selangor governments in 1898 following the formation of the Federated Malay States in 1896. On 10 March 1945, during the end of World War II, the right wing of the museum was bombed and destroyed by the US B-29 bomber, from the Allied Forces.The museum's collection was then moved to the Perak Museum in Taiping.
After World War II, the left wing of Selangor Museum was still in use as a historical site. On the brink of the independence of the Federation of Malaya, Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman conceived the idea to build a museum to house national historical and cultural treasures as well as specimens of flora and fauna. The old museum structure was completely demolished to make way for a new museum.
Construction began in 1959 and was complete in 1963. The National Museum was officially opened on 31 August 1963 by Tuanku Syed Putra Ibni al-Marhum Syed Hassan Jamalullal, the 3rd Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
On 4 April 1996 the building was gazette under the Antiquities Act 169/1976 as an ancient monument and historical site.
The museum's design by architect Ho Kok Hoe was inspired by the architecture of the Malay royal palaces and vernacular Malay architecture.
The design incorporated the need for exhibition and activity spaces. The large mosaic murals spanning the entrance depict the history and culture of the country. The floor of the central section of the main building is decorated with special tiles which were gifts from the government of Pakistan. In addition, UNESCO facilitated consultancies by museum experts from other museums around the world.
The museum places strong emphasis on the Malay World, and a considerable section is devoted to the founding of the United Malay National Organization, one of the parties of the National Front (Barisan Nasional). Few if at all were any mentions made of the involvement of the Malayan Chinese Association and the Malayan Indian Congress, which three parties worked together to achieve Independence of Malaya on 31 August 1957.
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