Sabah Museum
The state museum of Sabah, on 17 hectares at Bukit Istana Lama in Kota Kinabalu. Its main building has a longhouse-style roof, and its galleries cover the peoples, history and natural history of the state.
- Where
- Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 5.9606, 116.0717
Get the Sabah Museum stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Sabah Museum. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Sabah volume with your photos and a note.
Near Sabah Museum
Atkinson Clock Tower 2.5 km
The oldest standing structure in Kota Kinabalu, a timber clock tower alone on the bluff along Signal Hill Road above the seaside city. It began as a memorial and was first called the Atkinson Memorial Clock Tower.
Kota Kinabalu City Mosque 5.6 km
The city's second main mosque after the state mosque, in Likas on the edge of Kota Kinabalu. It is built beside a lagoon, and when the water lies still around it people call it the floating mosque.
Gaya Island 7.6 km
The largest island of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, 1,483 hectares of forested ridges just across the water from Kota Kinabalu. Its backbone rises to about 300 metres, with beaches and resorts in the coves below.
Tunku Abdul Rahman Park 8.0 km
Five islands lying 3 to 8 kilometres off Kota Kinabalu, among them Gaya, Sapi and Manukan, in a park that is two-thirds sea. They were once part of the Crocker Range on the mainland until rising seas cut them off.
Mari Mari Cultural Village 15 km
An open-air museum outside Kota Kinabalu that keeps alive the traditions and history of northern Borneo's indigenous peoples. Its houses represent five communities: the Kadazan-Dusun, Murut, Rungus, Lundayeh and Bajau.
Mount Kinabalu 55 km
At 4,095 metres, the highest mountain in Malaysia and in all of maritime Southeast Asia, rising over Sabah's west coast. Climbers spend a night on its slopes to reach the bare granite summit plateau at dawn.
Kinabalu Park 67 km
Malaysia's first World Heritage Site, a park set up in 1964 around Mount Kinabalu. Its forests climb from lowland jungle to mountain scrub and hold more than 4,500 species of plants and animals, among them 326 kinds of bird.
Mantanani Islands 88 km
Three islands off the north-west coast of Sabah, opposite Kota Belud: Mantanani Besar, Mantanani Kecil and Lungisan. Divers come for the reefs, and the surrounding waters are known for their dugongs.
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Questions
Where is Sabah Museum?
Sabah Museum is in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Atkinson Clock Tower (2.5 km), Kota Kinabalu City Mosque (5.6 km), Gaya Island (7.6 km).
How do I get the Sabah Museum stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Sabah Museum and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Sabah volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Sabah Museum before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Sabah volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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