Sun Yat-sen Museum Penang, History museum in Georgetown, Malaysia.

The Sun Yat-sen Museum occupies a townhouse built around 1880 at 120 Armenian Street, over 40 metres long. Inside are a courtyard garden, a timber staircase, patterned floor tiles, blackwood Straits Chinese furniture, carved wooden screens, and a kitchen with its original firewood stove and utensils.

Built around 1880 as a Straits Settlements merchant's townhouse, the building housed the Penang Philomatic Union reading club, a cover for Sun Yat-sen's party. In 1910 Sun moved the Tongmenghui's Southeast Asian headquarters here, and on 14 November 1910 he chaired an emergency meeting of the Nanyang Tongmenghui that launched fundraising for the Second Guangzhou Uprising, raising Straits Dollars 8,000 on the spot.

The exhibits reveal how Penang's Chinese residents supported the revolutionary movement through their networks and resources. You can see personal items and documents that show how deeply involved the community was in these events.

The museum sits on Armenian Street in a walkable area of Georgetown where you can easily reach it on foot. Plan to spend about an hour exploring the exhibits at a comfortable pace.

The first issue of Kwong Wah Yit Poh was published from 120 Armenian Street in December 1910 by Sun Yat-sen and his Penang followers; it is now the world's oldest Chinese newspaper outside China. The museum also holds the original firewood stove and kitchen utensils of the merchant house.