Thursday, March 18, 2010

VISIT TO GOPENG MUSEUM

I have read about the setting up of the Gopeng Museum in the newspapers somewhere in May 2009 and told myself that I would make it a point to visit it one fine day. That one fine day happened to be today. Since I am having a one week break from school, I brought my mum and aunt along.

I am pictured with Mr S.K. Phang, the curator of the Gopeng Museum. 
 Mr Phang is a retired teacher and is very knowledgeable about the history of Gopeng.  In this picture, he is showing me an ancient iron.

Relics of the rubber industry in Gopeng
Antique cameras
Antique clocks
History of Gopeng
The museum is closed on Wednesday and Thursday.  Actually I went on Thursday but luckily for me, the curator had gone to the museum to get something and he entertained my family and I.  Besides us there was another group of visitors from Ipoh who had also dropped by to the view the exhibits.

2 comments:

ummuazas said...

Thank you for the information. I don't even know that it exist. Some day I'd like to go there.

Miss Cheah said...

For your info, there is a museum in Tanjung Tualang on tin-mining. I am also thinking of visiting it one of these days.