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HISTORY

The National Museum was established on the

site of the former Selangor Museum.It was built

by the British and Selangor governments in

1898 following the formation of the Federated

Malay States in 1896. On 10 March 1945,

during the end of World War II, the right wing

of the museum was bombed and destroyed by

the US B-29 bombers, from the Allied

Forces.The museum's collection was then

moved to the Perak Museum in Taiping.After

World War II, the left wing of Selangor Museum

was still in use as a historical site. On the brink

of the independence of the Federation of

Malaya, Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman

conceived the idea to build a museum to

house national historical and cultural treasures

as well as specimens of flora and fauna. The

old museum structure was completely

demolished to make way for a new museum.