Galeri Seni Johor @ Kompleks Warisan Sultan Abu Bakar YWJ
Art gallery of Johor-born painters in a royal heritage complex beside a historic weaving house.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Johor Art Gallery, inside the Sultan Abu Bakar Heritage Complex in Johor Bahru, begins on a November afternoon in two thousand eighteen, when Sultan Ibrahim came to proclaim the complex and give it a name. From there it reaches back to Abu Bakar himself, the nineteenth-century ruler who moved his government across the strait from Singapore, and to the pepper and gambier planters and British admirers around him. Best heard standing between the art gallery and the weaving gallery next door.
This audio guide was created using AI.
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