Melaka Stamp Museum, Malacca

Malacca Stamp Museum (1 May, 2009)


Melaka Stamp Museum (GPS: 2.19155, 102.24946) is one of the museums along Jalan Kota (Fort Road) in Malacca. It occupies a two-storey building that dates back to the Dutch period. The building was designed in the Western architectural style, but made used of local material, as it was constructed using Malay and Chinese workers. It was originally used to house visiting Dutch dignitaries, a role that passed to the British when they took over Malacca.

The Melaka Stamp Museum building was disused following the Second World War. It remained unoccupied until 1954, when the British Resident Commissional of Malacca, G.E.W. Wisdom converted it into a museum. This was the Malacca Museum until 1982, when the museum relocated to occupy the Stadthuys (and was eventually renamed the Museum of History & Ethnography). Since then, this building has been used by the Melaka Islamic Foundation and the Enforcement Unit of the Melaka Municipal Council.

The building was restored by the Department of Museums and Antiquity in 2004. After that it was handed over to the Melaka State Government, and is now managed by the Melaka Museum Corporation as the Melaka Stamp Museum.

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