The Educational Tour To National Museum In Malaysia

Introduction

Place that I visited on 4 July 2018, Wednesday, is National Museum ( Malay called Muzium Negara) and it opened in 1963. The several galleries in the Museum provides different insights into the country's development. The diverse galleries included Gallery A (Prehistory Gallery), Gallery B (The Malay Kingdoms Gallery), Gallery C (The Colonial Era Gallery) and Gallery D (Malaysia Today Gallery) (Malaysia-traveller.com, 2018).

Prehistory Gallery which about the incident that related to historical investigation and archaeological excavations(Malaysia-traveller.com, 2018). The Malay Kingdoms Gallery which are the history of the early Malay Kingdoms in Archipelago, with the Malay Kingdoms of Melaka in the 15th century(Bing.com, 2018). Colonial Era Gallery covers the coming of Portuguese, followed by the Dutch and then the British and Japanese and these countries affected on Malaysia(Bing.com, 2018). Malaysia Today Gallery which include what happening of the independent of Malaysia and the economic development of Malaysia.

The three highlighted things that I learned in this educational tour was at the Gallery A and the three highlighted things are PERAK MAN(REPLICA), Bronze Bell and JAR(or URN BURIAL).

PERAK MAN(REPLICA)

PERAK MAN(REPLICA)(Figure 1)considered be the most meaningful discovery of the remains of a modern man(Homo sapiens) ever discovered in Malaysia, both because it’s antiquity of over 10,000 years ans also because of its most complete anatomical state. He was buried in a crouched position along with several burial goods which included some tools and food such as shells and animal bones were found in the cave. The most highlighted things in this was taught by the guide that how they communicated with each other and how to differentiate their gender at the moments. They were wrote on the wall as a mural to marked down their daily life(Figure 2).

Bronze Bell

Bronze bell was found in THE BRONZE AGE(Figure 3) which is the discovery of a moulding material produced by the local community to make bronze axe at the Gua Harimau archaeological site, in Perak clearly proved that the Bronze Age have existed in Malaysia approximately 3000 years ago. The highlighted things of this was the bell which hang by the elephant that gave signal to others people who were around the place and the sound of bronze bell can be heard five kilometers away.

JAR(or URN BURIAL)

JAR(or URN BURIAL)(Figure 4) is a practice among communities in Sabah, Sarawak and Terengganu. It was the human remains in the form of bones ash after cremation were interred in jars at this site. The highlighted things of this that I listened to the guide tour that the corpse of human are left to decompose at a site that is safe from wild animals and later, the skull and bones were collected and arranged in a jar that is then placed on the floor of limestone caves. In the past,people already knew that how to buried the corpse of human that used their own ways.

The only one exhibited element in this tour is AVALOKITESVARA(Figure 5) which placed at the Gallery B. AVALOKITESVARA is National heritage artifact. It found in a tin mine belonging to Anglo Oriented at Bidor in Perak, 1936. It is made of bronze and it has eight arms. It was dated when the culture of the region was Hindu-Buddhist which the time around 7th and 12th centuries AD. Reasons that I chose this because it was appeared before the Buddhist portrait of Guan Yin(Figure 6). Second, it made by iron so it was very heavy therefore it need to have minimum five person to move from one place to another place.

After this tour, perception of Malaysia for me was changed because of those people who contributed to help Malaysia became independence was mighty and they have no responsible to fight for independent but they still put intention to force on it because they knew that if Malaysia became independence, all of the Malaysian will increase their living standard and changed their lifestyle. I feels glad that I live in Malaysia because it gives me a chance to live with variety races and we can share our own cultural with each others.

After visited this tour, I knew that it is necessary be a responsible citizen to our country that protect and cherish things that having in Malaysia. Because the process of gaining independence was fulled of challenge but they still put a lot of effort to make it successful. In our daily life, we should willing to help others who are facing problems and empathize others because different people got different culture. We should have to be patriotic to our country. These will indirectly to increase the reputation of our country and decrease the problem of crimes.

The social issue during this tour was happened at the Gallery C. It was one little boy was lost and crying because he couldn’t find his parents at that time and his parents also didn’t realize that their children was missing. The reason that cause it happened was the parents didn’t take care of their children. To avoid this situation occur again, parents should pay more attention on their children and prohibit children running around the Galleries.

I was excited that I am been to National Museum because I didn’t go there before. I am appreciate to my Lecturer, Ms Sara who gave us a chance to have a visit on it. After this tour, I had learned a lot of history of Malaysia that I didn’t learned on text book while I am studied at secondary school. I also knew the National Museum are conducting the histories of Malaysia and National Museum as a travel sigh for tourist to tourism when they travel in Malaysia.

Conclusion

In conclusion, I learned that the origin of National Museum in Malaysia and where is it located. Independent of Malaysia was fulled of challenge which included external challenges and internal challenges. The three highlighted things that I learned are PERAK MAN(REPLICA), Bronze Bell and JAR(or URN BURIAL). We should show respect when we are visiting in the National Museum and be a responsible citizen toward our country. We should be more patriotic and respect others to become more prosperous and motivate development of Malaysia.