Sarawak Museum Department / Commorie Jati Richard

Sarawak Museum has been established during Charles Brooke era (1868-1917). He has suggested building a museum on the year of 1978. There was no action taken at that time until 1886. The decision has been taken to buy the ethnographic specimen from Rajang areas that has been collected by H. Brooke Low. This specimen has been displayed in Sarawak's museum in Market Place at Kuching area. The exhibition officially opened on 30 October 1886. The museum grew slowly maintaining the indigenous pride, identity and tradition of our people, Sarawakian. It survived the Second World War. Even standing on a sounder footing when Sarawak gained its independent through the formation of Malaysia in 1963. As the . result, Sarawak Museum enjoys the international recognition not only as a superb museum but also as a research centre in Borneo where Sarawak Museum journals are published annually for the world circulation since 1910. It is a keeper of the rich culture and history of Sarawak and the first class repository of Borneo culture with the world's largest collection of Borneo's flora and fauna. In appreciation of its existence, Sarawak Museum was established as a full-fledged department under the Ministry of Social Development Sarawak.
(Source: www.museum.sarawak.gov.my)