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Kuala Lumpur is set to welcome a new museum dedicated to Peranakan and Straits Chinese heritage this September.
The Peranakan and Straits Chinese Museum is housed in the historic Teo Chew Association building along Jalan Ampang, where renovation work is currently nearing completion.
The project involves the adaptive reuse of the three-storey heritage building, which spans approximately 1,300 sq m. Several artefacts from the museum’s collection were recently unveiled as part of Think City’s Downtown Kuala Lumpur Grants Programme 2026.
Among them were an original Henri Marseille roof tile design manufactured by Sacoman Freres and recovered from the building’s attic, as well as a rare 1931 Peranakan publication written in Baba Malay, Khien Loong Koon Yew Kong Lam.
Museum director and…