Muzium Negara visit

For my recent assignment, the route back from the client office took me past the national museum.  Each time, I'd plan to take the girls there since they had never been and they might learn something.  Finally went there this school holidays.  Entrance was only RM2 for adults (parking however cost us RM11).

 

Told JE to make the visit worth the ticket price heh.  There was a special snake display in conjuction with the snake year which I steered clear of.  There were 4 sections in the museum - early history (of humankind - interesting enough), Malay kingdoms (Parameswara and so on - hope the girls remembered something that would help them for their Sejarah/history lessons), colonial era (occupation by the Portugese, Dutch and so on - ditto for the girls) and Malaysia today (political and least interesting section for me).

I was walking around with SE so got more pictures of her compared to of JE.

Are these real? How did they get here from sunken ships?

Asked her to pose with this historic 'meeting' and got this...

Oi why got Caveman era person here??

I can also proclaim 'Merdeka!'

 

Overall I thought it was average:  Most of the exhibits were clearly replicas.  There was room for more exhibits, more details.  After all, this is our 'national' museum.  Erm it was rather warm as well when we visited.

What I liked it:  Exhibits had both Malay and English write-ups with decent language standards.  At least people can learn language if not history heh.  

For lunch I saw a good selection of dishes for 'nasi campur'/mixed rice.  But the others were more interested in the cafe so we had coffee, pies and cake instead.  Hmmff think the 'nasi campur' would have tasted better.  

Then we messed around with the stilts provided in the open area.

Whoa this is hard

Let me try!

I totally forgot about the impressive murals at the front.  Just took this last picture before leaving.

Yep we were here

Then we drove to the nearby National monument.

And now this, folks, is our Tugu Negara

 Not bad for a 'patriotic' day eh?