Explore Malacca

The Malacca Sultanate Palace Museum is a wooden reconstruction of the 15th-century palace of Sultan Mansur Shah at the foot of St. Paul's Hill in Malacca City, built in 1984–1986 from descriptions in the Malay Annals without nails. Its three floors show a throne-room diorama, royal chambers, costumes, weapons and regalia of the sultanate.

The Stadthuys is the red former town hall on Dutch Square in Malacca, built by the Dutch around 1650 as the office of the governor and his deputy and later used by the British administration. With the neighbouring clock tower and Christ Church it forms the Red Square, and it now houses the History and Ethnography Museum.

The Maritime Museum in Malacca City is housed in a 36-metre replica of the Portuguese ship Flor de la Mar, which sank off Sumatra in 1511, near the mouth of the Malacca River. Opened in 1994, it covers the port's trade from the sultanate to the Portuguese, Dutch, British and Japanese periods with maps, paintings, ship models and artefacts.

The Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum occupies a townhouse built in 1896 on Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock in Malacca City, opened in 1986 by Chan Kim Lay, the fourth generation of his family to live there. Its rooms show the domestic life of the Peranakan Chinese, with carved woodwork, furniture and porcelain.

Malaysia Heritage Studios is a cultural park in Ayer Keroh, north-east of Malacca city, on the site of the Mini Malaysia and ASEAN Cultural Park opened in 1986. Reopened under its new name in 2022, it shows traditional houses from the 13 Malaysian states as galleries, a maze of characters from Malay folklore, Borneo masks and cultural performances.