Paddy Museum ..

After the drive around on Saturday, we stopped by the Paddy Museum which is just behind Gunung Keriang. It's a stone's throw from the under utilized Aquatic Centre and Science Centre. It's my 3rd visit and Other Half's first. Son has been here twice with me and a few times on school trips. It's the lil girl's second visit...I think.

The architecture is quite unique. The roof (I don't know whether that qualifies as roof) has all these stalks of paddy as motifs on it. It is after all a museum dedicated to everything paddy. There're probably not more than 5 of such museums in the world.

The main attraction is the revolving platform which takes about half an hour for it to complete a circle...very much like the revolving restaurants of KL and Alor Star Telekom Towers. They've placed chairs for you to enjoy the view. There was quite a crowd that day.

And it gives you a peek into what life is like in rural Alor Star. These are part of a huge painting on the wall. They give an insight to the new and old of Alor Star...sort of. Lights behind these paintings give them a surreal feeling as the platform revolves slowly. They are very nicely done, if I may say so.

The hall as you enter the museum is quite airy and spacious. On my first visit, we had to leave our shoes outside. These days, we are allowed to wear our shoes in. 8) Shoes get lost outside and you can't view the exhibits with your mind keep thinking about your shoes outside.

These are some of the old tools used for the paddy industry in older times. Such tools are no longer seen these days. Signs of changing times. Old ways discarded for new ones. It was a lot of work to put rice on the table in those days!

The hall has many enclaves with interesting murals. This is one of them. See how many faces you can recognize. Must have been happier times, huh? ... when they were all still buddy-buddy. LOL!

I must say that they have more visitors now. Entrance is RM3 for adults, RM1 for kids and camera. Yup! You have to buy a ticket for your camera! All in all this was quite a good trip for the family, especially now that school exams are over!