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The Kuching Cat Museum (Malay: Muzium Kucing Kuching) is a cat museum in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It was founded in 1993. It was founded in 1993. It is owned by the Kuching North City Hall (DBKU).
Malaysia Youth Museum; Maritime Museum; ... Lau King Howe Hospital Memorial Museum; Islamic Heritage Museum; Kuching Cat Museum; Petroleum Museum; Sarawak State Museum;
The Borneo Cultures Museum (Malay: Muzium Budaya Borneo) is a museum located in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is the largest museum in Malaysia and the second largest in Southeast Asia. The museum displays artifacts relating to the history and cultural heritage of Sarawak’s local people, as well as others on Borneo island. [3]
The exhibit will be open between August 7, 2015 to January 31, 2016.
The name "Kuching" was already in use for the city by the time Brooke arrived in 1839. [9] [15] There are many theories as to the derivation of the name "Kuching".It was perhaps derived from the Malay word for cat, "kucing", or from Cochin, an Indian trading port on the Malabar Coast and a generic term in China and British India for trading harbour. [9]
The museum building preserves its French architecture. [12] Other museums include the Islamic Heritage Museum , [ 13 ] Petroleum Museum , Chinese History Museum , [ 14 ] Kuching Cat Museum , [ 15 ] Textile Museum Sarawak , [ 16 ] Art Museum, [ 17 ] Lau King Howe Hospital Memorial Museum , [ 18 ] and Baram Regional Museum. [ 19 ]
The museum in 1896, prior to its extension in 1911 The museum after its extension in 1911. It has been said that naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace encouraged Charles Brooke, the second White Rajah of Sarawak, to establish the museum [1] (there is no evidence for this as Wallace, although he did return to England with Charles (Johnson) in 1862, supported his elder brother, Brooke, when he was ...
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