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Penang Museum Building

Keywords : Colonial Building, Palladian architectures

Site common namePenang Museum Building
Type of artworkArchitecture
Village-
Province/CityGeorge Town
StatePenang
CountryMalaysia
Geographic Coordinates
Decimal degree		Lat : 5.420482
Long : 100.338576

History of productionThis building was building from 1896 - 1906
ArtThe Penang Museum Building is an interesting colonial era’s building that mixes both Classic style and Baroque style together. The building contains Palladian plan that was popular for the government place at that time. The architectural elements of this building are in Classic style like Doric and Corinthians pillars that support loggia continuous arches. However, the central pediment uses the Baroque arch. There are many of this mixing type architecture in Malaysia such as in Taiping.
PeriodHistorical Period
Art periodBritish Colonization Period
Age19th – 20th century

Type of LicenseAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
RightsPrincess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation2015-02-00
Record creatorChedha Tingsanchali