Kuala Lumpur City Gallery

The Kuala Lumpur City Gallery is located in a historical building that was in built in 1899 during the British colonial administration as a printing office. It was designed by A.C.Norman based on neo-Renaissance principles with exposed bricks, plastered columns and semi-circular windows. The printing office in the building produced official government reports and train tickets until 1961 when the Ministry of Labour took over. In 1977, the Metropolitaan Postal Security Office moved in. In 1986, the City Hall bought the building and turned it into the first public library of Kuala Lumpur.

The ground floor (A.C. Norman Floor) of the City Gallery houses a large city map, a history section and the ARCH work shop and gift shop. The first floor (J.Russell Floor) holds the large architecture scale mode of Greater Kuala Lumpur.

The I Love KL sculpture outside the Gallery is a popular photo spot

the large KL city wall map is quite informative, there are laser pointers to help showing locations on the map
next to the map is area with tourist information brochures

the "Newseum", a history section showing how KL was founded as tin mining "cowboy" town in the 19th century and later become the centre of the British administration of Malaya

miniature model of Dataran Merdeka (in the foreground, Masjid Jamek)

archictecture scale model of Greater Kuala Lumpur on the First Floor
the model is still under construction, it should be amazing to see when it is done. Future construction projects, like the 100-storey tower at Merdeka stadium, are included as glass models.

ARCH work shop at Ground Floor

ARCH souvenir & gift shop of Kuala Lumpur