Kuala Lumpur City Gallery

A super cute and well-​designed mini-​museum right next to the famous Merdeka Square. Learn a bit of history about the city and the culture. Upstairs, there’s a pretty neat show that combines color projection and a scale model of the whole city.
Free wifi and entry cost 5 RM but instead of a ticket you get a voucher that you can use later in the café or gift shop. Brilliant.
Don’t forget to take a super touristy picture with the I heart KL sculpture outside! ;)

As a local, it had nearly never crossed my mind to visit my own city’s gallery because, you know, that’s what tourist do, and locals don’t do touristy stuff. However, my uncle and aunt from Australia came to visit Malaysia and told my parents and I to bring them around. So we did, we did the whole touristy thing that we would not otherwise do.
The entry was RM5, but those are just coupons to spend on food later, which was a good treat I must say.
I was surprisingly entertained in the gallery. It had the history of Kuala Lumpur: who found it, how it was founded, what Kuala Lumpur meant, the ups and downs throughout the year and so forth. There pictures of our leaders and old documents that caught my attention. They this document with the prices of produce up and my eyes grew wide open at how cheap some things were. I suddenly felt a pang of gratitude towards our fore fathers. We’ve came a long way.
That was not the best part. The best part was what they had put together up stairs. There in front of our eyes was KL, but not the KL we knew, the KL that we are going to be living in. There will be a presentation explaining about Malaysia and about her future plans. I must say, I was impressed with the light show. We watched it twice. Once to read the facts, twice to see the light show.
Tourist or not, this is a good place to visit.
Outside, you can snap a photo with the I Heart KL. I did. I mean, I couldn’t help be feel patriotic for a minute.

An interesting gallery that gives a lot of information about history of Kuala Lumpur that new generation should know what is Kuala Lumpur before it changed to capital city of Malaysia. Also, the gallery will show you present achievement by the city of Kuala Lumpur. As Kuala Lumpur has become one of the modern city in Malaysia and also one of top destination in the world. Beside that, get a chance to see future construction for Kuala Lumpur in this gallery. It is so much interesting and exciting to know what is our country planning for the future. The miniature and architecture scale model made me so amazed and grateful with the development of Kuala Lumpur.
This gallery operated by ARCH Collection– they makes collectibles and gifts made of wood. You also can see their workshop at the ground floor. It amazed me to see the craft made by woods. They also sell their craft, so if you are interested. Grab for it!
Another great offers in KL city gallery, you can rent bicycle, RM30 for first 4 hours.
And if you want to get a tour with tour guide– RM45 Per Person (min 8 person– max 12 person). KL City Gallery also become first check point for Electric Tram service to Lake garden (This one operated by Kuala Lumpur City Hall)

KL City Gallery has really brought out the best of KL to the people.
By paying RM5, you will learn the history and evolution of KL.
I’m a history geek and I find the whole experience amusing. You get to see the old maps of KL, headlines of old newspaper about KL (like 70 years ago?), learn about the past influential icons of KL (dated back to era of Lock Yew), see the largest city model show (I got a little goosebump during the show, feel inspired by how far has KL gone and grown in the last 2 centuries), every piece of information is very authentic and it is as if a key to unlock chamber that contains little known about KL. Whole visit should take you not more than 1 hour (unless you pay attention in every inch).
I love idea where the admission ticket (RM5) can be used as rebate voucher for buying any souvenir from the shop. Spacious souvenir shop and there is a little café situated beside the shop. It serves our national food like Nasi Lemak. However, it is abit expensive. Each set of meal costs at least (RM10).
In overall, my time is well-​spent. You should also be inspired by the Gallery.