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The National Planetarium started as the Planetarium Division in the Prime Minister's Department in 1989. The construction of the National Planetarium complex, then only known as the National Space and Science Education Centre, [1] began in 1990 and was completed in 1993, costing RM 24 million with the Japanese government donating RM 5 million to the total construction cost. [1]
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Petaling Street (Malay: Jalan Petaling, Simplified Chinese: 茨厂街, Traditional Chinese: 茨廠街, pinyin: Cíchǎng Jiē, Cantonese jyutping: ci 4 cong 2 gaai 1,Tamil: பெட்டாலிங் தெரு , Peṭṭāliṅ teru ) is a Chinatown located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [1] The whole vicinity is also known as Chinatown KL ...
The Chinatown in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, (where 2 million ethnic Chinese comprise 30% of the population of Greater Kuala Lumpur [64]) while officially known as Petaling Street (Malay: Jalan Petaling), is referred to by Malaysian Chinese by its Cantonese name ci 4 cong 2 gaai 1 (茨廠街, pinyin: Cíchǎng Jiē), literally "tapioca factory ...
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 ...
The building consists of two floors of exhibition space, a cafe, a museum shop, and acts as a tourist information centre. [3] [4] On the ground floor is a permanent exhibition called "Memories of Kuala Lumpur" which includes old photographs and maps on the history of Kuala Lumpur from its founding to independence.
Kuala Lumpur, [a] officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, [b] and colloquially referred to as KL, is the capital city and a federal territory of Malaysia.It is the largest city in the country, covering an area of 243 km 2 (94 sq mi) with a census population of 2,075,600 as of 2024. [8]
The National Science Center open on 6 April 1986, at a temporary renovated bungalow located at Jalan Kelantan, Kuala Lumpur. [2] Plans for a permanent national science centre began in 1978, as a contribution by the private sector to the national development. [3] The concept was revived in the early 1980s.