Also known as Taman Warisan Melayu, the Malay Heritage Centre stands at 85 Sultan Gate, which was once the Istana Kampong Gelam (the Sultan's Palace). The original Istana Kampong Gelam was built around 1829, by Sultan Hussein and the new Istana was commissioned by his son, Sultan Ali of the Johor Riau-Lingga Empire in 1835.
This was the place where our NIE, NTU student pass couldn't work its magic; there was a $4 entrance fee that I jokingly joked we should submit for claims. Joke aside, this was the place where we viewed a scanned copy of the agreement Sir Stamford Raffles signed with the Sultan in 1819 then. Of course, some of us scratched our heads in both confusion and amazement at how they could preserve all these documents so well. (Did they also have a filing system as good as ours today back then?)
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