The RM9.8mil museum was officially opened by university chancellor Raja Permaisuri Perak Tuanku Bainun yesterday.
Royal archives: Tuanku Bainun (left) and Raja Azureen (second left) accompanied by Dr Aminah visiting the Pameran Payung Negara exhibition during the opening ceremony of the museum. It has 19 exhibition galleries, two reading and research rooms complete with a computerised system and a curator room.
The Suluh Budiman building, with its built up area of 3,239 sq m, was opened by the then Sultan of Perak Sultan Iskandar Shah on Nov 29, 1922.
In her message in the Pameran Payung Negara coffee table book, Tuanku Bainun hoped the museum would be able to record and illustrate the glorious history of national education in order to instil an understanding that today’s excellence is the outcome of struggles by past educators.
“I pray that this museum will continue to progress and can serve as an educational institution in a historic and meritorious institution of higher learning,” she added.
UPSI vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Aminah Ayob said the idea to have the museum was proposed even before UPSI was set up.
“The museum became a reality when the Higher Education Ministry allocated funds under the Ninth Malaysia Plan to rehabilitate and re-develop the heritage building,” she said in her speech.
Besides being a tourist attraction, Dr Aminah hoped that the museum would be used by students and researchers as a resource centre.
“We will digitalise the exhibition materials to be unloaded into our UPSI website to enable the world to learn of our country’s education,” she said.
Among those present at the launch were Raja Datuk Seri Azureen Sultan Azlan Shah, Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir and state secretary Datuk Seri Dr Abdul Rahman Hashim.
In conjunction with the museum’s opening, an exhibition entitled Pameran Payung Negara will be held for three months.
The exhibition will focus on the world’s royal institutions.
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