Museum,Gallery and Heritage Studies

Task 1

Introduction to Museum, Gallery and Heritage.

Visitation to Museum

As last 2 weeks ago, we went through and understood about the concepts and the theories of Museum, Gallery and Heritage. 

Next, for the module Museum, Gallery and Heritage, we are supposed to plan a visit to a museum in Kuala Lumpur where at the same time a requirement of research about a basic concept of Museum and Gallery.

On 12^th March 2015, as in the brief, we planned and visited two Museums on a same day. First was the National Museum of Malaysia, then the second one is the International Islamic Museum. In this module's task, Mr. Hushnaidi led us as well as we pick information from both Museums.

As in Individual, the requirement after the visitation is to speak and write about a selected artifact of my own and share some of my opinion to see what i have understood about it.

1) In national Museum, I saw the artifacts of Orang Asli of Malaysia and what the tradition based things that they had used on ancient time. Moreover, the artifacts in another part of the Natinal museum is about the early age lifestyle and the tradition of Orang Melayu in Malaysia. Other than that, proofs such as potteries and skeletons from different age are also exhibited.

Below are some of the photographs taken in National Museum of Malaysia;

 This is the mask of spiritual which the native's belief that a person who wears it will be obsessed with the power of it's spirit.

 

This is a small boat which is made of a log and there is small ancient time fishing rod. This are the main two things taken to the river for fishing.

These are the pieces of pottery in very early age in Stone Age.

 

This is carved stone of a God. The icon in the carved stone is a God who represent dance as a art.

These are some different type of stones found and It is the remains of Stone Age.

From the Tradition Museum of Malaysia which is a part of the National Museum of Malaysia, Harimau Berantai seems to be interesting for me to go through. As I see this Harimau Berantai as a spiritual believe because Harimau Berantai is a strong Guardian of a specific area of accommodation.

The chain that is being hanged is to show the bravery of this specific guardian spirit. According to the facts given, tribe which is named Mah Meri is the followers of this Harimau Berantai.  On that time, a tiger were selected as the spiritual icon is because the muscular predator which is strong enough to protect itself from danger. This clearly shows that Harimau Berantai were praised as their ultimate guardian.

Both museums are very neatly showing the most important wealth of civilisation and the meaningful life that have been survived by those people in early age of life. Other than that, I had clearly understood about the concept of a museum here by witnessing how the artifacts should be placed in a museum and how the environment should be settled.


*all the images taken by personal mobile phone.