Brunch
After a tiring day yesterday, we treated ourselves to a nice, long, lie in. We had decided to check out the Penang Tunnel Museum today. This museum consists of the history of Penang, as well as some visual trickery/glow in the dark photo sets. It took us a while to actually find breakfast, in fact it was past 12pm that we found anything. We settled for a small Chinese place where we had our breakfast/lunch. It was simple but just what we needed.
Afterwards, we made our way to the Penang Tunnel Museum, which was relatively nearby. For information on this Penang museum, check it out here. The ground floor of the museum showed us Penang’s past, mostly starting from when the British arrived with Indians. There were some paintings, writings, and props, originals I believe. It guides you through with a timeline too, mentioning noticeable events along the way. After the colonial era, it talks about the 20th century, and how Penang has changed, as well as local industries. It’s a very informative and compact museum with everything you need.
Does this look right?
When we proceeded to the last room on the ground floor, there were a couple of paintings/sets that you could have your photo taken with. The entire first floor also consisted of different wall paintings that look like optical illusions, through the camera lens. They were pretty interesting and unique for the most part. A portion of the rooms was also glow in the dark; it was pretty groovy. There was a person in each room dedicated to instructing what position to take, and then taking people’s photos. It was a well oiled machine. The 2 floors are very different, so I’m puzzled as to how the museum came about to be honest, unique and informative nonetheless!
As the day was still young, we decided to check out another ‘museum’. This word seems to be thrown around a lot in this city; there’s a museum for everything apparently. The next museum was to be a Ghost Museum. It piqued our interest more than anything. There were a lot of art-oriented museums, as well as art painted on buildings in the streets. In the absolute baking heat, we wearily hobbled across Penang to the next museum, trying not to melt to the floor.
Ghost galore
The Ghost museum was quite short and basic. It consisted of your standard dark, cramped corridors, with flashing lights and spooky soundtracks. The museum was interesting though because throughout the winding corridor, there were displays of the different monsters/myths that many cultures have from around the world. It was cool to learn about a few new legends that some Asian cultures have, in addition to vampires and giants that we know of in the West. We had a small kid following us around all of the exhibits, it seemed like his dad pushed him through the door and left him to fend for himself. I think he just wanted some company or guardians!
For more info on the Ghost Museum in Penang, check this out.
After we finished the museum, we were hostel bound whilst looking out for food. We found a middle-eastern restaurant in which we ate some pretty damn delicious food. After a very satisfying meal, we headed back to the hostel for the night, as we are up early in the morning.
