Kelantan museum has no funds to buy artefacts

The Star Friday 4th February, 2011

KOTA BARU: The State Museum Corporation has no funds to buy artefacts, said its director Abd Rahman Abdullah. He said the state government gave the museum RM80,000 in 2007. Since then, the museum has not been given any funds and so it is unable to add to its collection. We need artefacts to attract visitors to the five museums and the war memorial under us, he said at a get-together session held at the Kelantan Royal Museum here. We would normally purchase ancient Pattani Sultanate artefacts from Pattani, in Thailand, because its history is related to the Kelantan Sultanate, he said. Abd Rahman said more than 115,000 people visited the museums last year and three events had been planned this year. The corporation looks after five museums located at the heart of the town here the Kelantan ...

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