Tun Sakaran Museum () is a

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

Semporna Semporna () is the capital of the Semporna District in the Tawau Division of Sabah, Malaysia. Its population was estimated to be around 35,301 in 2010. The federal constituency represented in the Dewan Rakyat is Semporna. History Sempor ...

Sabah Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah has land borders with the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and Indonesia's North Kalima ...

, Malaysia. It is named after the 8th

Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sabah The Governor of Sabah, officially Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sabah (''Malay: Yang di-Pertua Negeri Sabah'') is the ceremonial head of state of Sabah, Malaysia. The Yang di-Pertua Negeri is styled ''Tuan Yang Terutama'' (TYT; "His Excellency"). Th ...

Sakaran Dandai Sakaran Mohd Hashim bin Dandai (15 April 1930 – 30 August 2021) was a Malaysian politician. Biography He served as the 8th Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sabah from January 1995 to December 2002, 8th Chief Minister of Sabah briefly from March 1994 ...

History

Semporna Sabah Official-Opening-of-Tun-Sakaran-Museum-10

The first ground-breaking ceremony took place on 31 December 2008 through a land donation from

himself. While the outside structure of the building was completed in 2010, it took until 2014 to complete the interior design and exhibition space. Before the official opening, the museum was partly open to visitors from 2014 to April 2015 as part of its soft openings. On 25 April 2015, the building was fully completed with a total cost of RM2.8 million funded by the

Government of Sabah The Sabah State Government is an authority governing Sabah, one of Borneo states of Malaysia, based in Kota Kinabalu, the state capital. The state government adheres to and is created by both the Federal Constitution of Malaysia, the supreme law ...

and officiated together by Sakaran Dandai,

Juhar Mahiruddin Juhar bin Mahiruddin (; born 5 November 1953) is a Malaysian politician who served as the 10th Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sabah from January 2011 to December 2024, Speaker of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly from December 2002 to December 20 ...

and

Shafie Apdal Mohd Shafie bin Apdal (Jawi alphabet, Jawi: محمد شافعي بن أفضل; born 20 October 1957) is a Malaysian people, Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Semporna (federal constituency), Semporna since ...

Features

Although being named after Sakaran Dandai, the museum mostly features the history and culture of the town of Semporna, especially its

Bajau The Sama-Bajau include several Austronesian ethnic groups of Maritime Southeast Asia. The name collectively refers to related people who usually call themselves the Sama or Samah (formally A'a Sama, "Sama people"); or are known by the exonym ...

community. The ground floor has a main gallery while the top floor exhibits culture and historical artefacts of the Semporna community with the exhibition will change from time to time. The museum also has

cafeteria A cafeteria, called canteen outside the U.S., is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether in a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a scho ...

and small multipurpose room for the public to use. File:Semporna Sabah Tun-Sakaran-Museum-10.jpg, A '' lepa'' boat model as featured inside the museum.

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