Sabah Museum

Coordinates: 5°57′38″N 116°04′18″E / 5.96056°N 116.07167°E / 5.96056; 116.07167
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Sabah Museum
Muzium Sabah
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Established11 April 1984 (1984-04-11)
LocationKota Kinabalu, Sabah
Coordinates5°57′38″N 116°04′18″E / 5.96056°N 116.07167°E / 5.96056; 116.07167
TypeMuseum
FounderSabah Society
OwnerGovernment of Sabah
Websitewww.museum.sabah.gov.my

The Sabah Museum (Malay: Muzium Sabah) is the state museum of Sabah, Malaysia. It is sited on 17 hectares (42 acres) of land at Bukit Istana Lama in Kota Kinabalu, the state capital.

History

The original Sabah Museum location was established on 15 July 1965 in a

Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang through his visit on the state (which also marked his final engagement prior to his end of reign two weeks later on April 25 the same year).[4][5]

Features

The complex contains not only the museum proper, but also an ethnobotanic garden, a zoo and a heritage village.[6] The main building also houses the Sabah Art Gallery. Other galleries cover Islamic civilisation, archaeology and history, natural history, and ceramics and brassware.[5] The mission of the museum is to collect, preserve, conserve and document ethnographic, archaeological, historical, numismatic, art-historical, botanical, zoological and mineralogical collections from throughout the state, and to conduct research on important and interesting aspects of Sabah's history, culture, and social and natural history.[7]

  • The museum entrance waterfall.
    The museum entrance waterfall.
  • The museum main entrance.
    The museum main entrance.
  • The museum seen afar.
    The museum seen afar.
  • Remote views of Sabah Museum.
    Remote views of Sabah Museum.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Our History". Sabah Museum. Archived from the original on 15 June 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Today's Highlights [12. The scholar administrators]". Daily Express. InfoSabah. 3 April 2000. Archived from the original on 3 July 2004. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  3. ^ "North Borneo Sacred Legacy Photographic Exhibition". Sabah Tourism. 2009. Archived from the original on 27 May 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  4. ^ a b "YDP Agung Rasmi Bangunan Baru Muzium Sabah" [Agong Officiated the New Building of the Sabah Museum] (in Malay). National Archives of Malaysia. 11 April 1984. Archived from the original on 15 June 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Yang Dipertuan Agong Merasmikan Muzium Sabah" [The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Officiated Sabah Museum] (in Malay). National Archives of Malaysia. 11 April 1984. Archived from the original on 15 June 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  6. ^ "Tourism in Borneo [Sabah Museum]". Borneo Online. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Vision and Mission". Sabah Museum. Archived from the original on 15 June 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2019.

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