(Throw back) Last week my son stumbled ๐ฏ๐คฏ upon my old National Geography magazine about whale ๐๐, he quickly came to me the he want to see the whale bone at the museum. So I told him to wait till Sunday. And now here we are ๐๐....
It was my son 2nd visit, and both my wife and daughter 1st visit. This place gave me alot of nostalgic feeling of my school days. ๐๐. Almost everything here looks exactly same as 20 over years ago.
We walked towards the main building to buy our entrance ticket ๐ซ๐ซ first.
To my surprised, adult ticket ๐ง๐ป ๐ซ๐ซ cost MYR2 only while children age below 12 is FREE ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฑ (foreigner cost MYR15). These ticket rates was still the same as 20 over years ago!! My goodness! I even asked the lady at the counter!! I know it owned by state government but the place need maintenance and even other places' ticket ๐ซ๐ซ cost far than this๐ฐ๐ฐ. Oh well... what can I say... ๐๐
So off we went to the main building first. Upon entering it, we immediately greeted with the magnificent sight of the huge whale bone ๐! ๐ฒ๐ฒ (Don't mind me! Its my first time seeing it ๐ ๐ ) Everyone around us were so excited! ๐คฉ๐คฉ๐คฉ
The sign said "NO PHOTO TAKING ALLOWED" ๐ซ๐ธ but nobody seems to bother at all. ๐คช๐คช Not even the security guards ๐ฎ๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ผโโ๏ธ... ๐คญ๐ ๐ .
We really spent quite long time looking at the bone. I felt like the very first time I saw dinosaur bone ๐๐๐คฉ๐คฉ It so exciting!! Anyway we started off with traditional costume section after that. This section displaying all the major ethnic people costume in Sabah, North Borneo.
Next was "History Gallery" which shown all the history during British governed Sabah. All the equipments and tools are display here.
Next we entered the 'Natural History Gallery' which exhibit all natural stuff from plants ๐ฟโ๏ธ๐, to insects๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ท๏ธ, to animals๐๐ฆง๐๐ฆ๐ฆฆ. My son was more caught up in this. ๐ฒ๐ฒ He really took his time looking at everything 1 by 1 and was so focused ๐ง๐ง.
I finally learned an insect name which I hated most ๐ก๐คฌ๐คฌ and really stamped into my head because of all the bad smell from it. Its the 'Whip Scorpion' ๐ฆ๐ฆ It always sneaked into my room. There was once it sprayed its acetic smell to my hand ๐๐๐คข when I swept it away while I was sleeping at night. No thought its actually part of scorpion species at all.
After that we entered the last section 'Pottery Gallery' ๐บ๐บ๐บ which exhibit all types of pottery found from the older days.
Finally we made our exit and head towards the old 'Train Gallery'. ๐๐ Here we looked at the very very old steam engine train used during British governance era. And along the way, we looked at very old vintage cars.
After that we walked through forest ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ดtrail to the 'Cultural houses' area ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ. I love the trail very much because of the nature... ๐๐ love the smell of trees ๐๐ณ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฒ and sound of insects ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐. It gives me peace. ๐
And this one was new to me... A draw bridge! ๐ฏ๐คฏ๐ on a pond!!
Such a beautiful place ๐๐. How could you not fell in love with it... ๐๐๐
Along the trail, there's a stream ๐๏ธ (behind those fences in the picture) that connected from the pond at the draw bridge ๐.
And finally reached the 'Cultural Houses'. Few of the houses ๐ก๐ก๐กwere built on top of the lake which connected to the pond at the draw bridge ๐ What a surprise!! Water Lilies blooming!! ๐ฒ๐๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ. Men! What a blessing! ๐๐Its really hard to catch up to such period and we were just on the right timing. My kids were so excited to see it.
Its almost noon when we finished viewing all the houses. There were more sections to go but my kids were complaining of hungry... ๐ ๐ If you look at the map ๐บ๏ธ, we only covered those area highlighted in red.
Oh well, had to save it for next time... We slowly walked back towards the main building through another trail ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ดn headed to the car park ๐๐๐๐๐๐. Until next time ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ
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Sounds you had much fun during your museum visit with your family. Great memories built there and beautiful captures too :) It's good that the museum kept the fees low even after many years :) Maybe to encourage more people to keep visiting :)
Yeah but the fee is too low.