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Rumah Melaka (lit. ' Malacca House ') is a gallery owned by the Malaysian Timber Industry Board located in Bukit Katil, Malacca, Malaysia that promotes wooden handmade products of the local people. It was built on an area of 5 hectares with a cost of MYR5 million, as a project in cooperation with the Malacca State Government. [1] [2]
A Rumah Gadang serves as a residence, a hall for family meetings, and for ceremonial activities. In the matrilineal Minangkabau society, the Rumah Gadang is owned by the women of the family who live there; ownership is passed from mother to daughter. The houses have a dramatic curved roof structure with multi-tiered, upswept gables.