Pinang Peranakan Mansion

Love the tour here! She really told the stories here and very happy to answer our questions (questioning is encouraged)! Although it can be crowded but the place is super cozy with air conditioning at many places! I had a full 2-hour visit here! Strongly recommended! Tips: when you buy the ticket, it is valid for another Peranakan house too!!! You can also find cheaper ticket online but do check the name and location properly. Also, do check out the peranakan play time before visit too! Was it fun? Look at my photos!!!!!

A beautiful and very enjoyable visit. What we liked most is that the mansion doesn’t feel like a dry museum — it feels like stepping into someone’s home. The rooms are elegant, colorful, and full of character, especially the furniture, porcelain, glass displays, and the wedding bed. You don’t need to read every description to enjoy it; just walking through, observing the details, light, and craftsmanship is enough. It really shows the blend of cultures and the sense of refinement and family life. Not too long, not overwhelming just the right pace. Definitely worth visiting if you want something cultural but still relaxing

Must visit this mansion as it’s very large and rich in heritage. The highlight is definitely joining a guided tour, where the guide explains the mansion and Nyonya history — and you absolutely must catch the live musical show! The Pinang Peranakan Mansion showcases a typical home of a wealthy Baba from a century ago. Exploring the mansion with a tour guide really helps you understand the culture and history behind every detail. Stanley explained everything very well, including feng shui concepts such as water symbolising money. There are both Chinese and English explanations available. The live musical show lasts about 45 minutes and focuses on Nyonya culture. There were four actors who interacted very well with the audience.

Top 10 must visit place in Penang. Huge vintage mansion for generations of a respectable & wealthy family in Penang. Many rooms to explore with different usages to show “Crazy Rich Asian” lifestyles. Ensure you explore all the rooms upstairs & the 2 rooms at the back on ground floor. It is worth the admission fee for them to preserve, maintain & open entire mansion for visitors. Allowing us to treasure, admire & pay respect to their ancestors’ home. Thank you Team Pinang Peranakan Mansion.

I visited the Peranakan Mansion on my Penang day 33 and it left me completely unprepared for what I found. I walked in expecting something interesting and instead ended up submerged in a world of opulence, taste and a culture that shaped Penang for generations. The building itself is stunning, with high ceilings, carved wood, Scottish cast iron, English tiles and those soft Peranakan pastel colours that make you feel as if you have stepped into an old photograph. Light pours through stained glass and lands on glossy tiles and carved furniture like soft gold. Knowing the story of its original owner, Chung Keng Quee, makes the visit even more meaningful. The mansion reflects not only wealth but a deep attachment to heritage. It was restored with great care and filled with pieces that represent Peranakan culture at its most refined. And the collection is honestly overwhelming, in the best way. Room after room of jade, gold, silver, enamelware, silk embroidery, wedding costumes, carved furniture, porcelain, altars and jewellery that could all stand alone as museum pieces. I kept stopping just to take in the tiny details, because nothing in here feels ordinary. Beyond the objects, the mansion also gives a real sense of how Peranakan society lived, with its blend of Chinese roots, Malay influences and European touches. It paints a picture of a world where refinement, customs and identity mattered deeply. I left feeling saturated with beauty in the most wonderful way. It is one of the true wonders of Georgetown and easily one of the highlights of my time in Penang.

The Pinang Peranakan Mansion is a museum located in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the area. The museum was once the home and office of Kapitan Chung Keng Kwee, a wealthy businessman in the late 19th century. The mansion has a unique architecture, combining Chinese, Malay, and European styles, with luxurious decorations and a collection of more than 1,000 antique items, including furniture, crafts, and traditional Peranakan clothing. Some highlights of the Pinang Peranakan Mansion include: - The Bridal Chamber : a traditional bedroom with beautiful wood carvings and luxurious textiles - The Nyonya Kitchen : a traditional kitchen with rare cooking utensils - The Dining Rooms : two uniquely decorated dining rooms, one with Chinese influences and the other with European style - Sacred Place : a family shrine with an altar and beautiful murals The museum is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with admission tickets costing RM25 for adults and RM12 for children aged 6-12 years old.

The mansion offers a fascinating glimpse into the opulent lifestyle of the Baba Nyonya culture, which is a unique blend of Malay and Chinese traditions. The interiors are rich and detailed, and you can really imagine how grand life must have been for Peranakan families. Is it worth visiting? Yes — but go with a few caveats. One thing that felt quite odd is that they don’t accept card payments, which is surprising for a place that receives so many international tourists. There is a complimentary guided tour included, but unfortunately, it was very difficult to understand the guide assigned to us. If you’re visiting mainly for the historical explanations, it might be better to opt for a paid tour for English instead. On a more positive note, one pleasant surprise was the Nyonya costume shop located right opposite the mansion’s main entrance. For around RM150, they provide the full experience — costume, hair, makeup. We saw many women doing this, and the mansion’s setting is perfect for it. It felt like a once-in-a-lifetime, very memorable experience.

It’s an old mansion full of history and souvenir shops. They recently opened the theatre for free; in return, they ask for tips at the end, which feels fair and definitely adds value to the entrance ticket. The show was good, and the complimentary English tour guide, Stanley, was friendly and informative.

I love fabulous old mansions. Peranakans are Babas and Nyonyas, a community Chinese unique to this part of the world. They created a lifestyle and customs that have left a rich legacy and influences. This mansion is a typical home of a rich Baba from a century ago. Built in the late 1800's, there is a ton to explore. Over 1000 pieces of antiques, gorgeous Chinese carved wooden panels and the main staircase, English floor tiles, and the Scottish ironworks. The design is Chinese courtyard house. A central two story courtyard surrounded by the living quarters. As I roamed, I could only imagine living here and coming down that beautiful staircase of local carved wood and Scottish iron in an Asian Victorian dress. Several outfits were available for viewing. And how cool to attend a dinner party here in that dining hall with all the imported porcelain, glass and silver. I can't imagine what the menu would have been. Next door is the family's own private temple. And a connecting retail area and restaurant. Allow at least an hour to wander, more if eating. They accept credit card here. Very limited parking.

If you have to choose one historic and preserved mansion in Penang to visit, make it Pinang Peranakan Mansion. Compared to the Cheong Fatt Tze "Blue Mansion," this mansion is more accessible (you can go anytime, not just tour times), has more areas that are open to the public (places are not sealed off and you and can browse all over at your own pace), full of more artifacts and items (almost overflowing really with furniture, glass, clothing) and somehow also "cooler" (make no mistake, the temperatures inside these buildings can be sweaty hot, but compared to the Blue Mansion where you are standing in a group for long periods of time with no air flow and a discouragement to leave the group, here you can move around a bit more with ease and thus it is "cooler.") Many mansion are built in the same style with a Chinese style Feng Shui courtyard in the middle of the home open to the sky and two stories of rooms circling that courtyard. So by seeing and understanding one mansion, you can understand many. As such, Pinang Peranakan Mansion is a beautiful, lovely and historically engaging one to visit. And make note, there is an extensive collection of shoes and jewelry in the back of the mansion in separate rooms to see as well and not to be missed.

Penang Peranakan Mansion is so so beautiful. Now there's an extension at the back with displays of embroidery, gold, silver, jade and also a goldsmith shop selling antique & vintage Peranakan jewellery. Lovely jade. 3 tours a day. First one we joined was at 10 a.m. Second tour time depends on how many persons they have. Third tour is at 4.30 p.m. Worth it.

The Peranakan Mansion On Church Street, Georgetown Penang, Malaysia. is a monuments to the ambition of a single man, The Kapitan Cina Chung Keng Kwee. Born in China, the young chung emigrated to Penang and eventually climbed up ranks of the Hai San Secret Society that controlled mining manpower in the Royal State of Perak. At the pinnacle of his powers, having been appointed the superintendent of all Chinese in Penang (Kapitan Cina), Chung purchased property along Church Street and built a large two-storey town house and family temple. He called his residence the " Hai Kee Chan", or "Sea Remembrance Store", and designed it in the Strait Eclectic Style Preferred by Peranakan of his time.

The Peranakan Mansion is among the must-see places in Penang, if you want to appreciate the rich culture of Malaysia's island state. The place is often used as the setting for several Malaysian and Singaporean TV series. The entry is rather expensive at RM20 per person, but it's is totally worth it. You can spend the entire day there. There are two stories of the house, with many chambers, a jewellery museum and souvenir shop. There are many things to be seen here, from photographs and personal utensils to clothing, jewellery and furniture from the glorious past. Unlike the other famous Peranankan Museum in Melaka where photo and videography is prohibited, you are allow to take as much photographs as you please here, without flash of course as that will cause damage to the display. Not only that, as you explore the place, visitors are allowed to touch most of some the displays and even sit on the furniture. It's a comprehensive tour of Peranankan culture and gives you a glimpse of like in a bygone era.

There were two of us. The guy at ticketing just saw me first and say 20 myr. Then my Filipino friend joined me and then he said 40.20 myr. I said, how does that make sense. Its how we do here, came the reply. Ok, we are separate then, I said. That's ok, he said. By that time my friend had left in disgust. I guest, that's how they got rich

A Baba Nyona (cultural blend, in this case Chinese/Malay) style mansion in the Little India district of Georgetown. The previous owner was a rich Chinese tin mine owner who was also part of the Hai San secret society that had collaborated with the British colonialists. It includes an extensive collection of gold jewelry and Pernakan furniture displayed in a home-like immersive manner. If you take one of the free guides a tour will take 2-3 hours.

A historic site which has been painfully maintained to serve as a licing testimony to a bygone era of Penang's rich history. If you ever wondered what it was like a century or so ago to live like a well to do merchant then look no further here. Its funny that my friend is a Khoo, a descendant of some sort of the past owners, and he just went their for the first time recently overwhelmed by the experience.

This place is bigger than it looks! If you take the in house tour particularly, you could spend hours going through the huge mansion and taking all the details in. Give yourself some time to look through and take in the Baba Nyonya culture and history, and as someone mentioned already, save this place to visit on a rainy day.

It is a very busy weekends , bacause of assignment I went to this "peranakan mansion" for research. It is a place located at Penang george town . This "peranaken mansion" is a place where people can visit and know more about the history of the baba nyonya. "Baba nyonya" is a race in Malaysia where a Chinese married to a Malay last time. They call them as a baba nyonya and baba stands for the guy and nyonya stands for the women . This "peranakan mansion" have all the information of the baba nyonya and the things that were used by baba nyonya . The "peranakan mansion" is actually a place where the baba nyonya live and after the war the baba nyonya have leave the place and that place were then become a neglected until a chinese man came and reconstruct it to a tourist attractions and he have make alot of afford to find all the things that is used by baba nyonya and decorated the house nicely and let the tourist to come and visit to understand more about the baba nyonya . We were very lucky that there were a guy in the place that help us out and explain a lot about the baba nyonya for us . The guy is a very nice person and he have a lot of knowledge about the baba nyonya and make us really understand alot about the baba nyonya. To enter the baba nyonya house we have to pay RM 20 per person exclude gst . We really gain alot of knowledge after visiting the place .

A fascinating place to spend an hour, or quite a lot longer if you have the time. Our guide, Stanley, was particularly entertaining.