George Town Museums and Galleries
George Town · Malaysia
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Explore George Town through grand historic interiors, collections that preserve local stories, hands-on science and playful illusion-based exhibits. Along the way, you will move from richly decorated rooms to interactive displays before ending with a vivid piece of street art. This walk is worth taking for the contrast between careful historical detail, physical experimentation, visual trickery and art encountered in the open air.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 7. The rest are in the app.
Pinang Peranakan Mansion
A tycoon's mansion becomes a vivid museum of Penang's Peranakan world.
Penang State Museum and Art Gallery
A former school whose classrooms became Penang’s state museum in nineteen sixty-five.
Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
A blue mansion where Chinese tradition, imported craft, and feng shui meet in one remarkable house.
Tech Dome Penang
Tech Dome is a science museum in George Town, Malaysia.
Upside Down Museum
Upside Down Museum, a museum on Lebuh Kimberley in George Town, Malaysia.
Boon San Tong
Boon San Tong is a museum in George Town, Malaysia.
Stop 7
- 1 more stop in the app
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in George Town
8 walks
How a walk works
1 more stop in the app
This page shows the first 6 of 7 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.