Sandakan Heritage Museum
Features
The museum sits in the 1st floor of the former British administration building for Sandakan where it showcases the pre-war and post-war history of the town. Various artefacts including barter trade items, authentic office equipment in the 1920s and traditional agricultural equipment. Portraits of local leaders and early scenes of the town are prominently displayed with the most eye-catching is the large wall mural of Sandakan in 1935 in the museum's hallway. The Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum in Chanute, Kansas of the United States has a relations with the museum with the digital copies of Johnson photographs related to North Borneo are returned to the museum and the authority of Sabah Museum.
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The museum building as seen from outside. -
Tourist office in the building.
See also
References
- ^ "Sandakan Heritage Museum". Sabah Museum. Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ "Sandakan Heritage Trail". Sabah Tourism. Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ "Sandakan and Kinabatangan museums highlight east Sabah heritage". Bernama. The Sun. 13 October 2015. Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ "Heritage – Sandakan Heritage Museum". Sabah Education Department. Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Lamont Lindstrom (5 July 2017). Across the World with the Johnsons: Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century. Taylor & Francis. p. 260. ISBN 978-1-351-57771-7.
External links
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