Field Trip - Bank Negara Museum ^^

I went to a field trip with my lecturers and classmates on 1st of June 2013. We went to Bank Negara Museum to do some research that is regarding on our final project.

The first impression I have towards the museum is"Wah!!So modern!!The design of the building is so classy and can let people feel like very modern feeling.The toilet it is really clean and nice.Because museum also let us feel like many images and text.But this museum is totally different with others museum and it is FREE for entry!

I found many things that is very interesting.The things that represents my impression is the children section.There have a lots of interaction as information,very colorful and children can easy understand!Children like to touch thing,there have some game can let them play and let them feel like they "own" the environment.

Use the crayon to draw the coin.

For the third floor which is the history part of Malaysia economy,much to my surprise,the display is so high-tech and has those interactivity stuffs and games.We learn NUI,TUI and etc in our Dynamic Interactive class last few weeks,the museum got a lots of this kind of technology,especially Natural User Interface (NUI).We visit in the Numismatic Gallery first. The first things we saw is the information of barter trade, its used in trading before money is used. There is an interactive game that let us experienced the barter trade in the gallery and it's difficult to trade without money. 

An interactive game that can let us experience the barter trade.

My learning experience of the museum is a good experience,the economy of Malaysia,the display have a lots of cubes,its represent an item.You can turn the cubes,it is show the price of the item in two different time,compare the price between past and present.I think the information presented in an attractive way.

1960s RM70

2010s  RM200

1960s 25sen

2010s RM1.50

I think I will share the information from the museum to my friends.Because now is the "touch screen" generation,all the younger all are using touch screen things.This museum is full of NUI technology,I think they wont feel like boring and can use the interactive way to understand it!If the information full of text,I don't think they will read it.

If i would to ask more questions about Bank Negara, its money and history, it would be...


1.Why the coins are so small and it value so big?how they decide about it?
2. How early money improve efficiency in trading? 
3.How does malaysian think about the design of the notes and choose those theme as the design?