Friday, July 20, 2012

School Trip To The National Museum

School took us to the National Museum of Malaysia, it was a really cool school trip and my first time to the National Museum of Malaysia; the museum is palatial, beautiful and well-constructed, all of the galleries are amazing and well-arranged.
Here I've done some research for National Museum of Malaysia

National Museum of Malaysia
National Museum of Malaysia is a museum located on Jalan Damansara in Kuala Lumpur, Malysia. The museum situated in close proximity to the Perdana Lake Gardens and it provides an overview of Malaysian history and culture. Muzium Negara is a palatial structure built in the style of Rumah Gadang, an aspect of Minangkabau architectur. It's facade comprises elements of traditional Malay and modern features. Muzium Negara was opened on 31 August 1963, and it serves as a repository of Malaysia's rich cultural and historical heritage.
Muzium Negara is a three storied structure of 109.7 meters long and 15.1 meters wide and 37.6 meters at the central point. The museum houses four main galleries allotted to ethnology and natural history. The displays range from free-standing tableaux  showing cultural events lie weddings, festivals and costumes; to traditional weapons, musical instruments, arts, crafts, ceramics, and flora and fauna.


Image 1, National Museum of Malaysia: Wikipedia 


About this trip, all I wanna say is "I loved the massage chair in the lobby!" 1 RM for 3 minutes back massage, how awesome is that!
(LOL JUST KIDDING)

So anyway, the museum seemed really cool, especially with the well-designed stairs, it's a spiral walk-way to upstairs, non-steps stairs. The worst part was that we couldn't take any photographs inside the galleries, but I did write down some of really good artists' names for me to do some research afterwards.
 My favorite gallery was the Photography gallery, the entrance of the gallery was a camera lens, so basically people have to walk into a lens to see the show, a very creative and genius idea; it had a dark room in the gallery with different steps of how to develop the images and print the images out, which is really cool, cause I've been wanting to learn the Dark Room.
And there was this kids section, showing some artworks made by kids on the second floor, which was quite interesting; " All the kids are artists" from their work, I feel the natural and naive side of art.

Basically I found the whole museum very well-organized, and don't really have any critic comments about it;

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