Tourist attraction
Royal Selangor Visitor Centre
4, Jalan Usahawan 6, Setapak Jaya, 53300 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Pewter factory and living museum spanning more than a century of Malaysian craft heritage.
This guide to the Royal Selangor Visitor Centre in Kuala Lumpur opens with Ah Ham crouching in a Kajang warehouse during the Japanese advance into Malaya, grabbing a pewter teapot as shrapnel passed close by. It traces the object back to Yong Koon, a fourteen-year-old arrival from China in 1885 who built a pewter dynasty on Cross Street, and follows the craft's shift from temple altar pieces to royal-warrant tableware. You'll also get to press your own mark into pewter at the Centre's hands-on workshop.
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