JABATAN MUZIUM SARAWAK: PERKEMBANGAN SEBELUM DAN SELEPAS MERDEKA (SARAWAK MUSEUM: THE DEVELOPMENT BEFORE AND AFTER INDEPENDENCE)

Gregory Kiyai@Keai, Noria Tugang

Abstract


Muzium adalah refleksi peradaban sesebuah negara dari aspek sejarah, warisan, budaya, adat, ekonomi, politik dan juga sosial. Fungsi muzium adalah menyimpan dan memelihara objek-objek budaya yang dirasakan mempunyai signifikan dan nilai dalam pembentukan identiti sesebuah negara. Muzium Sarawak yang telah berdiri selama satu abad menjadi saksi mata bisu kepada pelbagai perubahan budaya, sejarah, politik serta sosial masyarakat di negeri ini. Oleh itu, kertas kerja ini memfokuskan kepada perkembangan Muzium Sarawak bermula sejak zaman pemerintahaan Brooke sehinggalah kepada Malaysia moden kini. Metodologi kertas kerja ini adalah menggunakan kaedah kualitatif iaitu menemubual beberapa orang kurator di Jabatan Muzium Sarawak serta menggunakan data skunder melalui penelitian buku dan jurnal bagi memantapkan lagi penyelidikan ini. Akhir dapatan kertas kerja ini akan melihat kepada perbezaan dan pembaharuan fasa pembangunan Jabatan Muzium Sarawak berdasarkan kepada perkembangan zaman, peranan kuratornya serta sumbangannya kepada Negeri Sarawak.

Kata Kunci: Budaya, Muzium, Sarawak, Warisan

 

Museum is a reflection of the civilization from a country in the aspects of heritage, culture, tradition, economy, politic and social. Museum functions as to store and conserve cultural objects that have significance and value in term of forming the identity of a country. The Sarawak museum has been standing for a century and act as a silent witness to the various changes in culture, history, politic, including social within the state. Therefore, this paperwork emphasized on the histories of Sarawak museum since the Brooke's administration until the modern Malaysia. The methodology of this paper applied the qualitative approach by interviewing multiple curators at the Sarawak museum department and reference through secondary data obtained by books and journals as to support the research. The research findings focus on the difference and renewal in the development phase of the Sarawak museum department throughout the year. The roles of the curator and the contribution to the Sarawak state.

Keywords: Culture, Museum, Sarawak, Heritage


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