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Tourism Malaysia

Museum: Historical and Ethnography Museum

The Historical and Ethnography Museum is located at the
Stadhuys at the junction of Jalan Kota and Jalan Gereja, Melaka. In front of
the building, in an area known as Dutch Square, is the Victoria Water Fountain
and the Tan Beng Seng Clock Tower built in the year 1886. The Historical and
Ethnography Museum is on the second floor of the Stadhuys building.

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Tourism Malaysia

Museum: Kites Museum

This museum is located on the fourth floor of the building
housing the People’s Museum in Jalan Kota, Bandar Hilir, Melaka. The museum was
officially opened by the Chief Minister of Melaka in September 1995 in
conjunction with the ‘Regional Malay Customs’ seminar.

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Cuisine in Melaka

JONKER WALK & SINGAPORE CHINATOWN TO PAIR UP

Monday May 21, 2012

Jonker Walk and Singapore’s Chinatown to pair up as twin streets
By ALLISON LAI
allison@thestar.com.my

MALACCA: The city’s famous tourist attraction Jonker Walk is likely to pair up with Chinatown in Singapore as “twin streets” to promote them as tourism destination.

Jonker Walk committee deputy chairman Datuk Gan Tian Loo said the initiative was mooted after it realised that Jonker Walk and Chinatown shared many historical and cultural similarities.

“Both places were one of the earliest Chinese settlements of our forefathers who arrived at then Malaya during the 18th century.

“They feature distinctly Chinese cultural elements and played important roles in the economic development of Chinese settlers at that period,” he said yesterday.

Although the two streets have evolved, he said, their historic elements were preserved and were now popular tourist attractions.

The pair-up as twin streets would help strengthen friendship between Malacca and Singapore apart from benefiting both cities’ tourism industries with millions of tourists arrival recorded every year, he added.

Gan, who is also Duyong assemblyman, said the committee had forwarded the plan to an MP in Singapore.

“A working trip to the republic with visit to Chinatown is also expected soon,’’ he said

He also said the committee was planning to turn Jonker Walk and 20 other streets nearby into a Cultural Town.

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Tourism Malaysia

Museum: Admiral Cheng Ho Gallery

The gallery showcases the Admiral’s journey to the Southern
sea and his great feat in international relations where he established China’s
great affiliation with the African and Asia countries leading to a prosperous
and fair trading amongst them.

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Tourism Malaysia

Museum: Melaka Islamic Museum

The Melaka Museum of Islam was set up to be not only a
display centre of documents and artifacts pertaining to Islam but also to be a
centre for research into the coming of Islam into Melaka and its subsequent spread
to the rest of Malaysia.