Museum
Penang 3D Trick Art Museum
10, Lebuh Penang, George Town, 10200 George Town, Pulau Pinang
Trompe-l'oeil gallery of hand-painted illusions and life-size sculpted figures inside a colonial shophouse.
This guide walks the length of a shophouse on Lebuh Penang that opened in 2014 as Malaysia's first trick-art museum, where forced-perspective paintings and sculpted figures turn a flat wall into a shark's jaw or a tiger's leap. It traces how local artists trained in the technique built each illusion, from a reimagined Laocoon group wrestling a glass of teh tarik to waterfalls and tigers along the block-long building. Find the floor marks the artists left before you raise your camera.
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