Peranakan Museum
World's only museum dedicated to Peranakan culture, in a restored nineteen-twelve schoolhouse.
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Inside a former school on Armenian Street, the galleries trace ten chapters of Peranakan life, the Chinese-Malay culture born when Chinese merchants settled the Malay Archipelago and blended Malay language and batik with Chinese surnames and ancestor rites. The guide lingers at a bridal bed that belonged to Mrs Quah Hong Chiam of Penang, who bore eleven children, and the twelve-day wedding marathon it once presided over, part theatre, part negotiation, part fertility prayer. Listen for what a young boy was asked to do to that bed before the bride ever slept in it.
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