THE LEGEND OF MALAYSIA: P.RAMLEE GALLERY

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The P Ramlee Gallery
Arkib Negara Malaysia

The P Ramlee Gallery is beside his house,40A,P.Ramlee Road (formerly known as Counter Hal Road) Penang, Malaysia which is now a part of the PUSTAKA WARISAN SENI COMPLEX.

P.Ramlee was born on the morning of Idil Fitri on 22 March 1929. P.Ramlee House is the former home of iconic Malaysian artist, Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr.P.Ramlee. The house been renovated and transformed into a museum to celebrates his illustrious career in the Malaysian flim and music industry,inside the Malay kampung house(which was originally built by P.Ramlee's father and uncle in 1926) is a collection of the actor's personal effects and memorabilia plus displays of old photographs , movie posters and music records. He is also a winner of numerous national and international awards, his lifetime of work included over 60 films and 250 songs that appealed to a wide cross-section of the Malaysian society.

Address:
Galleri P Ramlee
40A Jalan P Ramlee (formerly Counter Hall)
10460 George Town
Pulau Pinang,

Malaysia

THE ADMISSION IS FREE, FOR MORE DETAILS YOU CAN CALL THE MUSEUM AT 604.281.7484

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P.RAMLEE WOODEN HOUSE

The wooden house raised on stilts with attap roofing belonged to P Ramlee's maternal grandmother was rebuilt at the same site. He always spent his time under the old tree during his young time.

The museum officially opened on 13 December 1991, it has collections of P Ramlee's clothes, musical instruments, films, documents, personal artefacts and photos.There also got his original and memorical items such as his violin,suitcase and such more.In addition, his old bicycle is parked under the house.

P.RAMLEE'S BICYCLE THAT HE PARKED UNDER HIS WOODEN HOUSE

THE P RAMLEE GALLERY

Merchandises like key chains,badges,notebooks,paper fans can be found in the gallery. Money earned will be saved under a corporate for maintenance purpose.
Unlike P Ramlee House, gallery is more cooler and more comfortable,you will feel more refreshing when you're looking at the gallery.

There is a display of P Ramlee's honour awards.

They are selling T-shirts with P Ramlee's head printing on them.

MERCHANDISES INSIDE THE CUPBOARD.

P Ramlee's masterpieces like his tetralogy series and movies have been played in a small theatre and the seats are provided for the audiences.

THE TELEVISION SHOWED P.RAMLEE'S DRAMA.

As we know that P Ramlee is a very talented artist, so he able to play both traditional ad modern musical instrument like violin,flute,bonang and more.There are some antique instruments which P.Ramlee used it before when he's still alive, they place them inside the gallery.The purpose they did that is because they wanted the coming generations to know that how P.Ramlee use his instruments and all his gadgets when he is still around to reminiscence his efforts in entertaiment circle.