Category: architecture
Seven Terraces, Penang – part 2
Continuing with our tour of the most interesting hotel on this Malaysian trip … part 1 is here. The hotel – Seven Terraces – has a second entrance which passes through the restaurant. The hotel’s restaurant, Kebaya, serves classically prepared Straits Chinese style dishes. We did not have a chance to try it. Bababar – the hotel’s…
Seven Terraces, Penang – part 1
After a series of posts on Malaysian street food, let’s see the most interesting hotel on this trip. Seven Terraces is a spectacularly reimagined heritage hotel in Penang. Located at the UNESCO World Heritage site, in the heart of Georgetown, the hotel is a conversion of a row of seven 19th century Anglo-Chinese terraces. Around the Love Lane area…
Models of Mosques at Islamic Art Museum Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
We visited the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (Muzlum Kesenlan Islam Malaysia, IAMM) while in Kuala Lumpur. See our earlier post on the museum here. It is the first and largest museum of its kind in South-East Asia and among its collection of artifacts, it owns a number of architecturally accurate models of famous mosques around the…
Islamic Art Museum Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
The Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (Muzlum Kesenlan Islam Malaysia) in Kuala Lumpur, the first and largest museum of its kind in South-East Asia opened in 1998. Occupying 30,000sq m, and housing over 8,000 artefacts, the Museum aims to create a collection truly representative of the Islamic world. See their web site here. The museum comprises…