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The Pinang Peranakan Mansion (Malay: Rumah Agam Peranakan Pulau Pinang) in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, is a museum dedicated to Penang's Peranakan heritage. The museum itself is housed within a distinctive green-hued mansion at Church Street, George Town, which once served as the residence and office of a 19th-century Chinese tycoon, Chung Keng Quee.
By the late 1980s, the Bishop Museum had become the largest natural and cultural history institution in Polynesia. In 1988, construction of the Castle Memorial Building was begun. Dedicated on January 13, 1990, Castle Memorial Building houses all the major traveling exhibits that come to the Bishop Museum from institutions around the world.
The museum building used to house the Penang Free School in 1821–1927. After Penang Free School moved to a new building in Green Lane, the Hutchings School took over the building in January 1928 and used it until 1960. The museum was opened by Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Penang Raja Uda Raja Muhammad on 14 April 1965. [1]
Nov. 13—Project Banaba, Bishop Museum's latest exhibit, displays contemporary art that tells the history of Banaba Island through the eyes of artist Katerina Teaiwa.
In 1910, Sun Yat-sen chaired the Penang conference within a townhouse at Armenian Street, during which he managed to raise $8,000 for revolutionary activities in China against the ruling Qing dynasty. [6] The townhouse has since been converted into the Sun Yat-sen Museum, which became one of the filming locations for the Chinese movie, Road to ...
Services were not to be held in the church until repairs concluded in 1948. Currently Bishop Dr Stephen Soe Chee Cheng is the Suffragan Bishop of the Area Diocese of Northern Peninsula with the Diocese of West Malaysia: Vicar of St. George’s Church Penang, the Oldest Anglican Church in South East Asia. [3]
The Penang House of Music (PHoM) is an interactive music gallery in George Town, Malaysia. It consists of a gallery, a performing/exhibition space, and a resource centre that documents Malaysia's musical heritage with a focus on Penang's music and musicians. It is located on the 4th floor of the ICT Digital Mall, Penang and covers 650 square ...
Selangor Museum was the de facto national museum pre-independence. [4] Selangor Museum was established in 1887 as an amateur affair by colonial civil servants. [5] It was taken over by the colonial government, and following the formation of the Federated Malay States in 1896, in 1904 it was administratively merged with the Perak Museum in Taiping as the Federated Malay States Museums under ...