Perak State Museum, Heritage museum in Taiping, Malaysia

The Perak State Museum is a museum in Taiping, Malaysia, housed in a Neo-classical building at the corner of Jalan Muzium and Jalan Taming Sari. It holds collections covering natural history, ethnology, and the broader history of the Perak region, spread across several indoor galleries and an outdoor area.

The Perak Museum was founded in 1883 by Sir Hugh Low, the fourth British Resident of Perak, with funds raised together with Sir Frank Swettenham. It first occupied renovated government offices while its Neo-classical building was under construction; that building, comprising an office, library and Gallery A, was completed only in 1886 because of a lack of funds. Extensions followed in 1889, Gallery B was built in 1891–1893, and a two-storey block for Galleries C and D was added in 1900–1903.

The ethnology gallery displays traditional wedding garments and everyday objects from Malay, Indian, and Chinese communities, shown on lifelike figures. Walking through this section gives a direct sense of how different the ceremonial traditions and craft skills of each group in Perak remain today.

The museum stands at the junction of Jalan Muzium and Jalan Taming Sari in central Taiping, reachable on foot from the town centre. The Neo-classical main building, its 1889 front and rear extensions, and the later galleries added between 1891 and 1903 are all part of the same visit.

The museum's name is often confused with a later Perak Museum in Ipoh, erected in 1926 by the tin miner Foo Choong Kit. The Taiping institution is the older one, founded in 1883, and its first curator was Leonard Wray Jr., a botanist and geologist who also served as Superintendent of Government Hill at Larut from 1883 to 1903.