Museum
Bank Negara Malaysia Museum and Art Gallery
Sasana Kijang, 2, Jalan Dato Onn, Kuala Lumpur, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Central bank museum charting Malaysia's monetary journey, with historic coins, currencies, and art.
This guide to the Bank Negara Malaysia Museum and Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur opens on the London Stock Exchange floor on 7 September 1981, as brokers quietly buy shares in Guthrie Corporation, the British firm holding vast Malaysian plantation land since colonial times. It follows Ismail Mohamed Ali, the central bank's first home-grown governor, and the secrecy and foreign brokers he deployed against the empire that once ruled here. Look for the kijang emblem he chose, and the coins and currencies tracing Malaysia's road to economic independence.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.