Time Tunnel, Memorabilia museum in Brinchang, Malaysia
The Time Tunnel is a memorabilia museum in Brinchang, Cameron Highlands, housed in the basement of Kok Lim Strawberry Farm. Its two-level space forms a corridor over 80 metres long, with eight galleries covering about 1,300 square metres. The collection includes over 4,000 objects and more than 1,000 photographs, such as a barber chair over 50 years old and a recreation of a kopitiam.
The museum opened in January 2007 in the basement of Kok Lim Strawberry Farm, founded by curator See Kok Shan. It grew from his private collection of regional memorabilia into eight galleries. In June 2018 a second branch, Time Tunnel Ipoh Old Town, opened in Ipoh.
The Orang Asli section holds hunting traps, tools and handicrafts from the peninsula's indigenous communities, laid out on the floor and along the walls. Nearby, a recreated barber shop keeps a barber chair over 50 years old, and a kopitiam installation with a cash register, marble-top tables and wooden stools shows the drinks are display only, not for sale.
The museum sits in the basement of Kok Lim Strawberry Farm, about 2 km from Brinchang town and 7 km from Tanah Rata. It can be reached by car or public transport and is open daily from 8:30 to 18:00. Photography of any kind is allowed inside.
A roughly 50-square-foot niche in the middle of the museum is devoted to Jim Thompson, the Thai silk figure who vanished from the Cameron Highlands on Sunday 26 March 1967. The display gathers memorabilia recalling him, and his photograph is among the museum's collection of over 1,000 images.
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