Chinese History Museum, Heritage museum at Kuching Waterfront, Malaysia.
The Chinese History Museum is a building at Kuching Waterfront that displays photographs, documents, and artifacts about the history of Chinese communities in Sarawak. The collection spans several gallery spaces, each focused on different periods and aspects of these communities' development.
The building was erected in 1912 to house the court of the Sarawak Chinese community; the White Rajah Charles Brooke preferred each community to settle its own marriages, divorces and property divisions. Before 1921 it passed to the Sarawak Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which used it as its headquarters. On 23 October 1993 it opened as a museum, inaugurated by Yap Chin Loi, Assistant Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports.
The museum presents the origins of Sarawak's different Chinese dialect groups and their traditional skills and heritage. Exhibits include musical instruments, jade, ceramics and photographs from the White Rajahs era, and since 2010 short films have been added to the displays.
The museum opens on weekdays and weekends at different times and has no entrance fee. Its location on the waterfront makes it easy to reach on foot and close to other nearby attractions.
The building stands directly opposite a Tua Pek Kong temple on the Kuching Waterfront. Before 1921 it served as the courthouse for the Chinese community, where the White Rajah Charles Brooke left marriage, divorce and property division to be settled within the community itself.
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