My Team Malaysia Merdeka Challenge - Muzium Negara
Not an easy task but hey I finished it!!! LOL.. Why I say this?... @littlenewthings will certainly be giggling over this when she sees this... Well if you see in my photo, the date is written as 25th August 2017 (which is today's date)... Actually there's a story behind this photo...
Let's start the story telling for this photo... Let us go back to 23rd August 2017... This week I was out in the field taking care of the ticketing counter at PWTC for tonight's Konsert Gala Pelarian (Ramli Sarip's concert)... So I was thinking of the Merdeka Challenge... Where should I take my photo to enter this challenge??? Then I see Muzium Negara on the way to PWTC... Cool... Great... That's it... Muzium Negara it is!
So on 24th August 2017 morning... I decided to stopped by Muzium Negara to take photos for my entry... Then off to PWTC to open my counter... Later in the afternoon when I was not so busy, I opened up the Merdeka Challenge post to read before I start with mine... Then to my surprise... I made a stupid silly mistake... I forgot one of the important rule... I didn't include my username and date in my main photo... (facepalm)... My first thought was Oh S**t!!! So that's why I didn't have any post yesterday... Planned for the post... and then BAM! Photo not right... Tak boleh pakai... DUH!..
OK.. So this morning again I stopped by Muzium Negara, and VOILA... The photo below was being captured... Mission accomplished!!! Yay!!! (^.^)/
This was the photo I took on the 24th... with my V sign!!!
WHY I choose Muzium Negara to enter this challenge? I am sure a lot of us may not have visit the museum lately... And why do I wanna visit the museum? Aren't visiting the museum suppose to be those school trip kind of places? Ya... this was what I thought last year... Only a few of you know that I am working with MyEdu (an online education portal where we do interviews and video shoots of local activities / events which are educational related (history, cultural heritage, social, technology, science, charity, tourism, parenting etc). The main purpose is to create public awareness towards what's happening locally.)
I am not from KL, so I didn't visit Muzium Negara when I was back in school... So when we went to interview and video shoot, it was my first trip to the museum.. and it was awesome... And there's another two museums next to Museum Negara, the Muzium Etnologi Dunia Melayu and Muzium Seni Kraf Orang Asli.
Here's a slideshow of some photos I captured during my visit and the MyEdu interview session.
Here's the interview video shot by my colleague.
Visiting the Muzium Negara is a good way of learning Sejarah (History)... There's the replica of the pintu gerbang of a kota in Kedah... There's also different types of mata wang (ancient, old coins)... And the museum has a lot of activities going on, just that we are not aware of it... Like this coming Merdeka (well every year, they have it)... They have "The Night in The Museum" (Program Bermalam di Muzium 2017)... Yup, overnight in the museum, and not just the Muzium Negara, in fact all the museums under Jabatan Muzium Malaysia has this program going on every year... You can check out their FB post on this. However it's not open to everyone, only secondary school students get a chance to "bermalam" in the museums... :)
They have coloring workshops, coloring contests... MyEdu was lucky to be able to go and shoot one of the event - Coloring Contest with Uneh (King of Colour Pencils, Malaysia) at Muzim Negara.
In short, although I have been the the Muzium Negara for a few times, but frankly speaking I would go back and visit a few more times... Why? Coz everytime I will find and learn something new...
And here's some more photos I took at Muzium Negara yesterday...
So here's my entry for the Merdeka Challenge @bitrocker2020 !
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STOPGreat effort eliza...wish u luck!
Thank you... :D
You made it. Hehe.. Congrats.. Pretty tough challenge right. Well done
Thanks! Not an easy task.
Awesome effort. I hope you win ;)
I stayed in KL close to 20 years but never visited Museum Negara. Shame on me. Maybe now that my kids are older I should go and bring them.
Thanks... There's lots of other museums which are pretty cool too... The Bank Negara Museum is one great museum kids would love... I will share about that next time... The Million Ringgit Tunnel is the best spot all small kids and big kids love!
Thanks for the recommendation. Will check it out when we shift back to KL in December ;)
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Loooong time since I went to our national muzium... what a great time to visit that place
They are now having another temporary ikon fashion exhibition... (Forgot the proper name of the exhibition) you can visit the museum website for more info..
Wow, I am impressed. You are truly superwomen, you managed to spare your tight schedule for this. Well done!!
Thank you... Where there is a will, there's always a way... Very true indeed... Must do this... So no matter how still have to find a way to get it done... :)
My last visit to the Museum was in the 1980's while I was still studying in KL. I am sure things have changed so much. There used to be an exhibition about death and burial rituals, a bit morbid but quite interesting. I have a post about Merdeka too.
I think the death and burial rituals exhibition is still on... The main exhibition I think it's still more or less the same... But the temporary exhibition is always changing after a few months...
Wow, in that case the death and burial rituals has become a permanent exhibition. Will check it out sometimes. In the meantime, something strange is happening in Kuching.
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There's a corner where there are some "coffins" from different cultures and tools used during the rituals...
That was what I vaguely remembered
Congrats, Eliza...!! I know of your involvement with museums and education, and that this is a passion for you. Great effort!! (especially with the double work... lol)
Thanks AC. Hopefully the project can still be continued. As the economy is not good, our company is considering to stop MyEdu.
That's sad. Shall keep fingers crossed that your project carries on...
High chance of closing down the project... :(