Bid To Make Palace World Heritage Site

Seri Menanti Palace, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

State tourism, unity, culture, arts, heritage and Malay customs committee chairman Datuk Mohammad Razi Kail said the task force, led by the Negeri Sembilan Museum Board, would try to justify and fulfill UNESCO's criteria.

"It's not easy for UNESCO to declare certain sites as world heritage. We have to fulfil its stipulated conditions, criteria and justifications," he told Bernama here on Friday.

He said the idea to get UNESCO's recognition for the palace as a world heritage site came after it was declared a national heritage by the unity, culture, arts and heritage ministry recently.

The Seri Menanti Palace was first built in Seri Menanti, Kuala Pilah in 1902 and was completed, six years later. The four-storey palace has 99 pillars, including four 67-feet high main pillars.

The 'open secret' which made the wooden palace so unique and special is that it was built without using a single nail, but only wooden wedges, instead.

The palace was officially gazetted and launched as the Royal Museum by the late Yang di-Pertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan, Tuanku Ja'afar on July 14, 1992.

Source: Bernama.com
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