Pinang Peranakan Mansion

I have visited many Peranakan museums in Singapore, Malacca and now here in Penang for the first time. One of the best kept Peranakan museum I have seen so far. Well designed mansions including family altar and very huge kitchen space that they turned into restaurant and even theatre. Many exhibits were a time piece of their time, trapped in the space of time so that we can visit and relate. Included art piece, kitchenware, furnitures, and even well taken photographs. Certainly the building made a good spot for photography and can see the many patrons who donned Nonya clothing and employed photographers to take good shot. Love the museum!!

Generally I really enjoyed visiting the mansion and listening to the tour (included with your ticket). We decided to only visit this mansion while in George town, and my mom and I easily spent 2 hours here. Other reviews have covered why it's such an interesting place really well, so I'll focus on why this is 4 stars and not 5 stars for me. First, it was hot. Yes, there's individual AC units in some of the rooms and fans blowing everywhere, but my gosh I was sweating bullets unless I was standing right next to an AC. Second, please be aware that you cannot pay via credit card unless you buy over 100 RM of tickets (each one is 30 RM). If it's under 100 RM and you don't have a local payment app (I don't know what it is), you have to pay cash. We ran into this problem, so we went around the corner to get cash from an ATM and came back. It made us miss a tour that had been just about to start, so we had to wait another 30 minutes for the next one to begin. Overall, not that bad, but I hope reading this can save you some time/steps.

This is an interesting place to visit whether you're a history buff or not. It allowed me to peek into the lifestyle of the wealthy Nonya family. Looking at the artefacts and portraits was fun enough, but I would have loved it more if detailed descriptions and explanations were given on signs and boards. As it is now, the visitor has to piece everything together without being given a congruent story. Nonetheless, the mansion is beautiful and the musical show is very cute.

RM30 is the entry fee per person. Self-guided tours are available throughout the day. We bought the entry ticket after reaching there. Can spend 2 hours. Beautiful Mansion , 2 levels and multiple rooms to watch and see. Can get crowded and the family prayer room in the back has a disconcerting feeling. Must visit which gives a glimpse into Peranakan life and the grandeur. Thoroughly enjoyed it. And lot of photo spots to get good pictures. Only negative was the airconditioning inside the mansion and it got so stuffy to be inside which ruined the experience. Other than that, definitely recommended if you are in Georgetown.

RM 30 seems quite a high fee to pay for a museum visit but it is worth it! The place features abt 5 rooms on the groups floor and 4 rooms on the 2nd floor with an adjacent private temple. Each room has a different function/theme and are filled with ornaments & decoration that the Peranakan story. Half hourly guides also led guided tours of the museums. There are places to sit in the cooling interior to rest your feet and slowly savour this Peranakan houses

Wonderful treasure trove of Peranakan artifacts. Amazing musuem guides who are passionate about the place. visitors are treated to a 40-minute song-dance-acting skit in the small auditorium, which is highly entertaining & engaging. The musuem shops are also interesting.

We visited this as Blue Mansion had no available spots. And it was beautiful piece of art and history. Highly recommended. There is option to rent traditional clothes for photos

An excellent place to understand the early 19th century Chinese peranakan culture, architecture and arfetacts. Open daily from 9am to 5pm. Visitors even can rent the nyonya costume for photos shotting. Impressive with the Jewelry display as well. Don't miss the antique selling hall for souvenir back.

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.