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Archive for April, 2007

As all Buddhists geared up to celebrate the Wesak Day on the 1st of May , Tuesday which happens to be the universal Workers Day , lets pause fro a moment to see what our current great teacher Master Chin Kung at http://www.amtb-usa.org/ had to say about Buddhism !!!
Buddhism is a most profound and wholesome [...]

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Yesterday , our Museum were indeed honoured to receive a delegation of Buddhist from the Fo Guang Shan M’sia headed by Her Excellency Rev. Jue Cheng - Abbess ( FGS M’sia ), Principal ( DongZen Institude of Buddhist Studies ), CEO ( Fo Guang Publication ) www.fgs.org.my .
Within a short span of time , Her [...]

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Congratulations to the Melaka States Goverment for having introduced the abovementioned bus services. It only cost RM 2 per day to hop up and down of the aforesaid bus services with the same ticket !!!!! It should had been introduced a long long time ago….

First and foremost , i personally being stationed at MAM [...]

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This morning Mr Yeo of Muar cameby and together with Jason Yoong we’d shared the various ways to further promote Melaka; if not Malaysia.
As Jason is setting up a blog on Money Museum , Mr Yeo contributed by letting me published his various bank notes collections for the general viewing of bloggers around the globe; [...]

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This morning Mr Yeo of Muar cameby and together with Jason Yoong we’d shared the various ways to further promote Melaka; if not Malaysia.
As Jason is setting up a blog on Money Museum , Mr Yeo contributed by letting me published his various bank notes collections for the general viewing of bloggers around the globe; [...]

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到马六甲观光,非到瀚洋考古博物馆参观动物锡钱不可!就好比入宝山而空手而归。
Whenever you visit Melaka -Malacca , pls make it a point to visit Maritime Archaeology Museum http://www.mam-museum.com/ or you had not visited Malacca at all! Cause the very rare 15th century animal tin currency exhibits consisting of Turtle, cockerel, Fish, Crabs, Crocodile could be found here !
It was not until 1970 s that we found [...]

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I tried on many occasions to avoid but to no avail - met up with Mr Jae Lee , a born Malacca but raised in Korea and Japan AGAIN.
He told me that during his childhood days over there ; his parents would always bring him to pray to a Buddha statue up in the mountains.
Years [...]

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Today was special at MAM because Mdm Eng Buland , a Malaccan who went aboard to the States 25 years ago came back in search of the missing 25 years in Melaka…… but this time around with her hubby Mr David Buland, whose ancestors hailed all the way from Norway years ago ……
Mr David is [...]

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Tin Money Of Malacca
During the melaka Sultanate Era, the traders and merchants used mostly the gold dust, pieces of silver bars, also blocks of pure tin in their transactions, beside early days of barter trade.
Gold Dinars and tin tipis coinage from Pasai, Sumatra were also used in Malacca at that time, only very small purchases, [...]

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Geographic Info:

Population : 700,100 people
Land Area : 1,650 sq km
Districts : Melaka Central ; Alor Gajah ; & Jasin.
Distance from Kuala Lumpur : 148 km
from KLIA [...]

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