Duration: Day Trip (13:30-17:00pm)
Date of Tour: 20 October 2011 (Thuesday)
With Who: Myself & Winfrey Hillarie
Interest:Bryde Whale Speciment, ceramics, customs of Sabah, North Borneo Railway & etc.
Open Daily: 09:00am-17:00pm
Entrance Fee: Local Visitors (RM2.00), Foreign Visitors (RM15.00)
About Museum: Just off Jalan Penampang & surrounded by lush gardens is the Sabah Museum Complex, comprising the Main Building, the Science & Technology Centre, the Conservation Centre & the Heritage Village.
The Main Building is designed after a traditional Rungus longhouse. Inside are the Entnography, Natural History, Ceramics, Archaeology, and History Galleries. Showcase upon showcase display beautiful & fragile jars, traditional costumes & craft, prercious fragments from the past, colourful birds and butterflies, marine and animal life as well as insects & moths. The Museum's main offices are located at this building.
The Science & Technology Centre houses, among others, the Sabah Art Gallery, an exhibition on broadcasting technology.
The Heritage Village allows visitors a chance to experience several traditional houses within a small area. Among them are Bajau House complete with a wedding dias, a Murut Longhouse with a lansaran trampoline), a Chinese farmhouse with earthern floor, a Bamboo House & a House of Skulls.
Commercial, medicinal & ornamental plants make up the well-planned gardens of the Sabah Museum. Local fruit trees as well as vegetables are grown around the Heritage Village. A montane Garden also graces the ground od the Museum.
Contact: Department of Sabah Museum, Locked Bag 2015, 88566 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Tel: 088-253199, 225033, 263551
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