Malaysia to set up museum in Makassar

Antara News, Sunday, December 27, 2009 11:35 WIB

Makassar (ANTARA News) - The Malaysian government will open a museum gallery in Makassar, provincial capital of South Sulawesi, in 2010, a Malaysian official said.

"We will build a Malacca museum in the city of Makassar in the near future. We are planning to commence the building of the museum early in 2010," head of Malaysia`s Malacca Museum Datuk Wira Hj Hamdin Bin Abdollah said here over the weekend.

He said that the Malaysian government expected that a number of historical items from Malacca, Malaysia, would be displayed at the museum.

Makassar was known as the biggest port city several centuries ago.

The Malaysian official said that the Malaysian government had also set up Malaccan museum galleries in Indonesian cities such as in Sawahlunto (West Sumatra), Palembang (South Sumatra), Jambi, Aceh and Lampung.

"We have established Malacca museums in these cities," Datuk Wira said.