"The Lenggong Archaeological Museum, also known as the Kota Tampan Archaeological Museum, is located on a paleolithic-era archaeological site that existed 31,000 years B.C."
The Lenggong Archaeological Museum, also known as the Kota Tampan Archaeological Museum, under the Department of Museum and Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage is located on a paleolithic-era archaeological site that existed 31,000 years B.C.
Besides exhibiting artifacts excavated from the Kota Tampan site, the museum has two more galleries: the Lenggong Pre-Historic Gallery and the Human Civilization Gallery, which includes among the more interesting artifacts the 10,000-year old Perak Man skeleton and Antiquities during the Malaysian 7th Plan.
It is situated on the Kota Tampan Paleolithic site which is about 74,000 years old and completed in 2001 this Lenggong Archeological Museum is the first Prehistoric Archeological Museum in Malaysia
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Getting there
The Lenggong Archaeological Museum is located 2km after Tasik Raban in Lenggong. You can take a bus or taxi from Kuala Kangsar.
From Ipoh, take the North-South Expressway (PLUS) and exit at Kuala Kangsar proceeding on the East-West Expressway to Gerik Situated in the areas of Kota Tampan, Temelong Parish and Lenggong, in the district of Hulu Perak.
It is about 6 km south of Lenggong town, and about 2 km from the junction to the main entrance of Kuala Kangsar - Gerik.
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