Upside Down Museum
Pre-war shophouse fitted room by room with upside-down furniture for gravity-defying photographs.
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This guide walks through a pre-war shophouse in George Town's UNESCO-listed old town, turned in 2015 into a household with the ceiling for a floor, a kitchen table hanging overhead and a staircase running the wrong way. It traces the six rebuilt rooms of an old Chinese Penang home before the stairs reach a street scene fixed above your head. Lie flat on the floor and tilt your head back for the photo the room is built for.
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