Han Chin Pet Soo, Heritage museum in Old Town Ipoh, Malaysia.

Han Chin Pet Soo is a museum housed in a three-story white building near the Kinta River in Old Town. The exhibits display objects and documents about tin mining history and the lives of workers during that era.

Leong Fee founded the Han Chin Tin Miners' Club in 1893, on the fifth day of the fifth moon, in a two-story shophouse on this site, after the Great Fire of Ipoh of June 1892. In 1927 his son Leong Yin Khean sold the house to the club members below market price, and in 1929 it was rebuilt as the three-story villa with balcony seen today, lit by electricity for its 37th-anniversary house-warming on 5 May 1930. The Japanese occupation of 1941 saw the building sold without the members' knowledge; ownership was restored in 1945. Membership fell as tin mining declined, and by 2012 the club could no longer fund maintenance, so members leased the building to the heritage group ipohWorld, which restored it and opened the museum in February 2015.

The club admitted only Hakka miners, who gathered to eat, meet friends and play mahjong legally under a magistrate's 1897 memo. The second floor lodged Hakka male guests of members, and its displays trace the Hakka people's thousand-year history; the word Hakka itself means "guest".

You should plan your visit in advance since access is limited to certain days and times. The building is conveniently located near other historic structures in the old town center.

The house originally served as a gathering place with multiple uses on the lower floor, functioning as far more than a simple clubhouse. These varied activities under one roof reflected the important social role this location held within the community.