A trip to another country always involves acquaintance with its culture, history, and people. After all, practically everything that we see in another country is people: the results of their work, relationships, traditions, and beliefs, the way each manifests themselves. A person showcases themselves in every aspect of their life.

The founders of the People’s Museum in Malacca tried to convey the same idea. The unusual name may alarm you, but don’t worry, you won’t find anatomy theaters and fetuses in jars inside. The museum showcases people from the economic, technical, and industrial progress perspective.

The museum is located in the very heart of a big developing Malaysian city. Surrounded by other museums, the People’s Museum is easily recognized by the large red building that used to be the city council. Before entering, you may be overwhelmed with a feeling that when the doors open, you will learn all the secrets of the world, or at least Malaysia. However, it isn’t so, the exposition is a little more modest.

Here, in a spacious white room with tiled floors, exhibits showcase Malacca’s progress over the past decades. It is a brief city history review in banners, paintings, movies, and artifacts. Here you become amazed at how far a small town has traveled in such a short term: where the thatched huts stood yesterday, skyscrapers now rise.

And, of course, since it is a people’s museum, the exhibition depicts the interaction of different ethnic and social groups in Malaysia. Creativity has not been disregarded either. The museum has a vast collection of traditional musical instruments and costumes. All this is presented in a very demonstrative way, through real-life scenes and films.

Having learned the history of Malacca and Malaysia, you enter another interesting hall, the kite museum. Here, everything is also revealed through a person who launches a kite made by themself. Kites aren’t the terminal stop. This hall contains a huge collection of Malaysian games.