Sabah Museum

Sabah Museum
Muzium Sabah
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Established	11 April 1984
Location	Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Coordinates	5°57′38″N 116°04′18″E / 5.96056°N 116.07167°ECoordinates: 5°57′38″N 116°04′18″E / 5.96056°N 116.07167°E
Type	Museum
Founder	Sabah Society
Owner	Government of Sabah
Website	www.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 shophouse in Gaya Street, Kota Kinabalu, largely due to the efforts of the Sabah Society.^[1] George Cathcart Woolley collection of photographs, diaries and other artefacts, bequeathed to the State Government of Sabah, formed the nucleus of the museum.^[1]^[2]^[3] The first curator of the museum was E. J. Berwick.^[1] The museum administration then came under the State Ministry of Community Services and within the same year in 1981 under the initiative of former Sabah Chief Minister Harris Salleh, a total of RM31.2 million was gathered for the construction of a new museum building with the construction started on 1 June.^[4] The following year, the museum administration came under the State Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports where it finally moved into its present location on 11 April 1984.^[1] The new building was officiated on 11 April 1984 by the seventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang through his visit on the state.^[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 main entrance.
The museum seen afar.
Remote views of Sabah Museum.

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Our History". Sabah Museum. Archived from the original on 15 June 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
^ "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.
^ "North Borneo Sacred Legacy Photographic Exhibition". Sabah Tourism. 2009. Archived from the original on 27 May 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
^ Jump up to: ^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.
^ Jump up to: ^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.
^ "Tourism in Borneo [Sabah Museum]". Borneo Online. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
^ "Vision and Mission". Sabah Museum. Archived from the original on 15 June 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2019.

External links[]

Media related to Sabah Museum at Wikimedia Commons
Official website

[museum_background-1] Jump up to: ^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.

[officiated-4] Jump up to: ^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.

[agong_officiated-5] Jump up to: ^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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Sabah Museum

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