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Global
Correspondent Report From Malaysia
Islamic Arts
Museum
These haikus are
inspired by the Islamic Arts Museum
Malaysia's Architecture Gallery:
Islamic Arts
Musuem
I hop from one great mosque
to another
Islamic Arts
Museum
everywhere I turn
a world's great mosque
The Islamic Arts
Museum Malaysia is the largest Islamic museum in South East
Asia and one of the finest that I had stepped foot in.
The museum was
set up in 1998 and is about five minutes' walk from National
Mosque and 10 minutes from the Old Railway Station in Jalan
Hishammudin. The museum has 8,000 exhibits, some of which are
very rare, spread out in 12 highly impressive galleries themed
architecture, quran and manuscript, india, china, malay,
jewellery, arms and armour, woodwork, coin and seal, metalwork
and ceramics.
At the
architecture gallery are large replicas of great mosques
around the world such as the holiest mosque in Islam Mecca's
Masjid al-haram, the Taj Mahal, and other great mosques
stretching from Iraq, Iran to as far as China.
The museum also
has a large bookstore where you can
find many of the latest titles of book concerning Islam. There are also
antiques and replicas of Islamic ceramics on sale.
History of the Malaysian Railway
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