Trading ships and tugboats are displayed in this museum. Also those formerly used in trade with the trading ships arriving at the port.
Presently, temporary exhibition, Sailing Deep Into The Sea, is being held. Showeasing the maritime Silk Road connecting Brunei and China over 2,000 Years ago, it is jointly organised by the Quanzhou Maritime Museum of China and the Brunei Maritime Museum. The exhibition features some 130 exhibits mostly from Quanzhou, China and include porcelain, gravestones, ship models, ancient coins, historical images and documents.
open to the public from 9am to Spm on Saturday to Thufsdayand on Friday from 9am to 11.30am and then 2.30pm to 5pm. Fotifurther information, contact
At present, a temporary exhibition entitled Sailing Deep Into The Sea, is being held.
This exhibition highlights the maritime Silk Road route that connected Brunei and China more than 2,000 years ago, jointly organised by the Quanzhou Maritime Museum of China with the Brunei Maritime Museum. It involves 130 exhibition items, most of them from Quanzhou, China, including porcelain, gravestones, ship replicas, ancient coins, as well as historical images and documents.
The museum is open to the public from the morning until the afternoon. Darussalam can be reached at 224 0083.
Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2015 Sep-Oct, pages 61-63. Printed in Bahasa Melayu and translated into English for this site; text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected.
