Pinang Peranakan Mansion Review

This is a place that you can understand more about Peranakan culture. This historic mansion is located at Penang Georgetown. Once you step into the mansion, you will feel the vibes that how Peranakan people live in Malaysia long long time ago. The museum entrance fees RM25 including tour both in Mandarin or English. The guide will tour you around the house and tell you the history of Baba and Nyonya. Highly recommended you are in Georgetown!Never forget that the Singapore drama - Little Nyonya (also the latest China version) scene are took from this mansion!

The Peranakans, also known as the Babas and Nyonyas, was a prominent community of acculturated Chinese unique to this part of the world, especially in the Straits Settlements (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) hence its other name, the Straits Chinese. Adopting selected ways of the local Malays and later, the colonial British, the Peranakans had created a unique lifestyle and customs which had not only left behind a rich legacy of antiques but its cultural influences like cuisine and language are still evident in Penang today.

A cultural heritage of the Peranakans in Penang, well preserved that housed most of the relics.

amazing place to learn about the local peranakan culture and the guide is quite good

The Pinang Peranakan Mansion is a musuem located in 29, Church Street, George Town, Penang. It was the typical home of a rich Baba of a century ago, and recreated to offer a glimpse of their opulent lifestyle and of their many customs and traditions. With over 1,000 pieces of antiques and collectibles of the era on display.Opening hours: open daily from 9.30am - 5pm. Admission fee: RM25 (aldult), RM12 (children below 12yr.)

I highly recommend it to those traveling to Georgetown. You should never miss this attraction.Entrance fee is affordable at RM20 per adult and totally worth the price. We visited at 10am during a public holiday and just in time for a mandarin tour at 10.30am which is very informative.The mansion is so large that it is hardly noticeable from the outside, and I might have missed some areas without a guided tour. In addition, there are many antiques that are meticulously displayed.