Lenggong Valley World Heritage Site postcards

The Lenggong Valley in Perak, Malaysia, has recently celebrated it's first anniversary as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

As there seem to be no postcards available, and knowing that people collect cards relating to caves, and World Heritage sites and other themes, I had some printed.

There are 2 designs -

1. The archaeological gallery

2. Gua Teluk Kelawar and replica of Perak Man burial

These cards are now for sale. To order, email me, lizprice@hotmail.com .


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Lenggong archaeological gallery, again

Went back to Lenggong Musuem again - or I should say gallery, as that is now its new name.

New sign on the junction to the museum

However at the museum, the new signs have not been put up yet - there is still a blank white space below the roof

 the old name -

It has been 6 months since my last visit (see link above) and 8 months since I posted a general blog.

The upstairs gallery is now open. However it is not especially exciting, it is just a series of posters of Malaysian World Heritage sites and many posters on how Lenggong achieved its recognition. There are just 3 small display cabinets and a video.

There was one "politically correct" poster showing people praying for Lenggong to be inscribed as a World Heritage, and shows people of 4 religions praying - Muslims, Christians in a church, Chinese in a temple and Indians -

At least all the posters are recent and mention Bukit Bunuh at 1.83 myo (unlike the displays downstairs).

As usual the English on the posters wasn't proofread and there are mistakes.

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Lenggong museum now a gallery

I had a letter published in The Star on 4 October 2012, re Lenggong Museum now being called a gallery. I have already blogged this.

THE STAR
Thursday October 4, 2012
Lenggong Museum is now a gallery

THE Lenggong archaeological museum, Muzium Arkeologi, has changed its name to Galeri Arkeologi.

In other words, it is no longer a museum, but a gallery.

This is probably because Jabatan Warisan Negara took over Muzium Lenggong from Jabatan Muzium Malaysia on Aug 7.

Since this take over, all the road signs and signs at the museum are being replaced, with the word museum changed to gallery.

However, I wonder if anyone has bothered to check the meaning of the word gallery.

It has two meanings, one related to content, and the other related to structure.

A gallery is a room or building for the display or sale of works of art, or for the exhibition of artistic work.

Alternatively a gallery can mean a long room or passage forming a portico or colonnade.

Whereas a museum is a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited.

It seems to me that gallery is an inappropriate word for the Lenggong archaeological artifacts. It may even suggest that the exhibits are for sale!

LIZ PRICE

Kuala Lumpur

Lenggong archaeology museum now a gallery

When is a museum not a museum? When its a gallery!

The Lenggong Museum is now a Gallery!

The Lenggong archaeological museum in Perak, Muzium Arkeologi, has changed its name to Galeri Arkeologi. In other words, it is no longer a museum, but a gallery.

This is probably because Jabatan Warisan Negara took over Muzium Lenggong from Jabatan Muzium Malaysia on 7 August 2012. This came after the Lenggong Valley was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site on 30 June 2012.

Since this take over, all the road signs and signs at the museum are being replaced, with the word museum changed for gallery.

The brass sign on the museum wall, signed by the Sultan has now gone

July (above) and September (below)

The main sign on the outer wall of the museum compound was actually removed earlier, first photo taken in 2003, 2nd photo in July 2012 -

The road signs have been covered over with the new name -

The new Jabatan Warisan signs -

On my most recent visit at the end of Sept I saw 3 new huge posters on an outer wall. Even those had the word 'musuem' covered over

However I wonder if anyone has bothered to check the meaning of the word gallery. It has two different meanings, one related to content, and one related to structure :
A gallery is a room or building for the display or sale of works of art, or for the exhibition of artistic work. Alternatively gallery can mean a long room or passage forming a portico or colonnade.
Whereas a museum is a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited.

It seems to me that gallery is an inappropriate word for the Lenggong archaeological artifacts. It may even suggest that the exhibits are for sale!

See more on Lenggong Museum.

On 4 Oct 2012 I had a letter published in The Star about this change of name from museum to gallery.

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Lenggong Museum geology park

After visiting the Lenggong Museum in July 2012, we then went outside to see the geology park. The huge sign board was very hard to read with orange writing on a blue and grey picture.

The park is set in oil palm plantation, on a hill with a series of steps and slopes. These looked as if they could get slippery if allowed to get covered in algae and the metal handrails got very hot in the sun. Thankfully there was some shade.

The park has various examples of large rocks such as quartz, alluvium, volcanic ash from Toba, suevite, and the Lawin Basin deposits. The English is rather poor on many of the descriptions and there are factual errors.

Quartz above, and alluvium below

Volcanic ash from Toba above, and suevite below.

Deposits from Lawin basin

The path then leads on up hill to the huge observation tower. It has 4 floors and there are nice views over the surroundings, although the palm trees do block a lot of view. The tower seems to be unnecessarily big.

On the way back down through the park are rocks of granite, Lawin tuff, limestone, quartzite and quartz.

Lawin tuff (above), limestone (below)

quartzite (above) and quartz (below)

Looking back up. This slope was already slippery, will be dangerous when wet!

We then had a look at a newish building which covers a dig. The site was fenced off and there was no sign board. It seems as if a new path is being constructed to this area, which is simply called tapak ekskavasi.

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