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MUSEUMS AND CULTURAL SITES

The Royal Regalia Museum

The Royal Regalia Museum houses a collection

of royal memorabilia including the royal chariot,

ceremonial armoury, the jewel-encrusted crowns

used during His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal

Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum

Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi

Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei

Darussalam’s coronation and a replica of the throne

used by the Sultan on state occasions. The building

was established in commemoration of the Silver

Jubilee of His Majesty’s ascension to the throne

in 1992. It also houses several galleries, namely

the Royal Regalia Exhibition, the Royal Exhibition

Gallery, the Perpuspaan Gallery, the Silver Jubilee

Gallery and the Constitutional History Gallery. The

buildingwas of cially declared an ASEAN Landmark

on August 8, 2017.

Opening hours:

Sat to Thurs: 9am – 5pm

Fri: Closed

Malay Technology Museum

Located in Kota Batu, the Malay Technology

Museum is known to display traditional

activities such as handicraft, shing and other

traditional hunting techniques, cloth weaving,

boat construction, sago production and stilt

architecture. These activities illustrate the

traditional lifestyle and practices of the country’s

Malay and indigenous ethnic groups. The displays

are allocated across three different galleries.

The rst gallery exhibits the traditional houses in

Kampong Ayer as inhabited by Malays. The second

gallery showcases traditional technology as used

in Kampong Ayer and the third gallery focusses on

the technologies and crafts of indigenous ethnic

groups such as Dusun, Murut and Kedayan of the

inland villages.

Opening hours:

Sat to Thurs: 9am – 5pm

Fri: Closed

Brunei Museum

The Brunei Museum is Brunei Darussalam’s

national museum. Located in Kota Batu and

completed in 1970, the museum was of cially

opened on February 29, 1972 by Her Majesty

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. The

museum showcases not only Brunei’s history

but also Southeast Asian history, dating back

to the 1500s during Spain and Portugal’s

arrival, in addition to an Islamic art gallery and

a natural history gallery. The museum features

archaeological artefacts including ceramics from

Iran and Central Asia, blown glass pieces from

Egypt and the Levant dating all the way back to

the ninth and tenth centuries. Furthermore, the

museum also displays manuscripts of Al-Quran

and jewellery and Chinese ceramics recovered

from Brunei waters.

The Brunei Museum is currently closed for

refurbishment.

The Royal Regalia Museum