The Museum (Literature Museum) ! :)

So after all those shopping at the Jonker Street, we move on to the next spot that is the museum! :D It was about 1:30 P.M. when we reached at the Melaka Museum. The Historical and Ethnography Museum is located at the Stadhuys at the junction of Jalan Kota and Jalan Gereja, Melaka. In front of the building, in an area known as Dutch Square, is the Victoria Water Fountain and the Tan Beng Seng Clock Tower built in the year 1886. 

The Historical and Ethnography Museum is on the second floor of the Stadhuys building. The museum portrays the lifestyle of the different communities and sub-communities that make up the population of Melaka - the Malays, the Chinese, the Indians, the Portuguese, the Baba and Nyonya, the Chetti and Chitty communities. Among the exhibits on display are items used in traditional wedding ceremonies, kitchen utensils, musical instruments and collections of ancient porcelain ware. There are also collections of ancient weapons, stamps and various currencies. 

So there were three museums and all have its own characteristics and history telling. The first one that we went was the Literature Museum Melacca.The Museum of Literature is located at a building near the Stadhuys that used to house the Melaka State Development Corporation. The museums contains material pertaining to written historical records of Melaka, such as the 'Malay Annals', 'Hikayat Hang Tuah', 'Hukum Kanun Melaka' (Punishment Under Canon Law), the writings of Munsyi Abdullah and local Malay folklore. The museum also traces the growth of literature in Melaka from the period of the Melaka Sultanate to the contemporary literary scene. 

The exhibits also include graphic representations in the form of paintings based on events described in the Malay Annals and the execution of penalties as provided under the 'Hukum Kanun Melaka and copies of original handwritten historical manuscripts from many parts of the world. Traditional literary genres such as 'pantun', 'gurindam', 'nazam', and puisi (poetry) are also given due recognition. The gallery honouring national and local writers is very popular among visitors.

Here are some of the pictures :)

This is a big unique tree which located right outside of the museum. I belive that this tree is from many hundred years ago.

Right behind of me is one of the museum. The weather was perfect and the place was realy nice as it was located right up on the hill.

The entrance of the Literature Museum. Basically, the concept of the building was made up from an old tradisional house. 

Those statue was representing the actual people that came to Melacca many years ago to rule Melacca and also to make Melacca an entreport central.

Those pictures shows about a talented man that made up his name through his own books that he published.Abdul Samad bin Muhammad Said is a Malaysian poet and novelist who, in May 1976, was named by Malay literature communities and many of the country's linguists as the Pejuang Sastera receiving, within the following decade, the 1979 Southeast Asia Write Award  and, in 1986, in appreciation of his continuous writings and contributions to the nation's literary heritage, or Kesusasteraan Melayu, the title Sasterawan Negara.

This are some of his books that he wrote and became an attraction to the others to read it.

In the musuem, there were many bords that giving information abot A. Samad Said like where is he from, how did he manage to be a poetry and a book writer, his education, talents and many more. So in this way, the people all around Malaysian also the tourist weill get to know him more deeper and futher through these true facts.

And this was the "Sasterawan Negara" qoutes. Means, each of them have their own self slogan which brought them up to be the person that will serve the nation for a good reason.

This picture above is telling about the talented Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad is a Malaysian politician who was the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia He held the post for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, making him Malaysia's longest serving Prime Minister. His political career spanned almost 40 years.

"Wayang Kulit" is one of the very famous traditional shows here in Melacca! Wayang is a Javanese word for particular kinds of theater. When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. Performances of shadow puppet heatre are accompanied by a gamelan orchestra in Java, and by gender wayang in Bali.

These are some of the faces that are talented and have their own unique ways on how they became famous and known by the nations.

I eventually took a picture with the statue! :) Well the statue is actually a great figure that is hard working and tries to protect Melacca from enemies coming in.

Those are some of the old camera's that they take pictures or videos with it many years ago. More for the media side like news and shows. It is very big and heavy! Moreover, I'm glad that I can see those old big media camera's that was kept in the museum :)

Those are some pictures regarding the old books or journals that they found many years ago. It has lots type of culture language books and it is writter in their hand writing. For example, Jawi and Mandarin hand painting.

And that's us taking pictures of us together while looking in the museum for some history information! We had a great time in the museum while sharing lots of stories to the international students about our Malaysian history :)

 

That's the entrance of the first museum that we got into. Now we know lots of things about the amazing literature here and their figures :)