Kuching Cat Museum

The Kuching Cat Museum (Bahasa Melayu. Muzium Kucing Kuching) is a cat museum in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It was founded in 1993. It is owned by the Kuching North City Hall (DBKU).

History

The idea of building a cat museum was mooted by Sarawak chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud and his wife Laila Taib.

Collections

There are four galleries containing over 4,000 artefacts including paintings and memorials related to cats. These artefacts were acquired from National Museum in Kuala Lumpur and were displayed for the first time on 1 August 1988 at Dewan Tun Abdul Razak, Putra World Trade Centre. The collections were handed over to DBKU after the completion of DBKU headquarters in 1992.

Structure

The museum is currently housed inside the DBKU headquarter. The museum covers an area of 1,035 square metres on Bukit Siol which is 60 metres above sea level.

See also

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  • List of museums in Malaysia

References

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Amir Rushdan
20 February 2018
Interesting. Lotsa infos,facts, history about catzzz. And the entrance is foc! RM3 for each phone, RM4 for camera and RM5 for video recorder ???? I won't mind spend half day here hihu
Kelvin Jawa
10 June 2015
A well kept museum about cats. You have to pay a token amount to use your cameras inside but it's worth it. As a cat lover, I recommend this to all my cat-loving friends.
Grayden Goon
11 January 2014
I think it's interesting to find out about some facts about cats and to look at all kinds of statues and collections of cat from around the world. Quite fascinating. It's free admission, so why not?
Henni Purwanti
2 January 2015
A good place to visit. Its all about the history if cats. Its about 15 mins from water front sarawak
Khazaira Kal - El
10 September 2016
Great place for cats lovers.. Need more item to display and bigger place.. too crowded..
Grayden Goon
11 January 2014
If you are not taking photos, you need to leave your camera at the counter where you'll be given a tag. If you sneak in your phone camera and use it to take photo, just don't get caught.
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Dewan Bandaraya Kuching Utara (DBKU), Jalan Semariang, Petra Jaya, 93050 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia Get directions
Mon-Tue 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Wed 11:00 AM–5:00 PM
Thu 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Fri-Sat 9:00 AM–5:00 PM

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