THE Sarawak Museum Department is currently working on bringing back the Kenyah Badeng sun hat from the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Minister of Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts Datuk Seri Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said that during the department’s last trip to London, the delegates had discussed and submitted the official request for the return.
“Bringing back the sun hat will give new meanings and significance to the people of Sarawak as new interpretations of old histories will come to light,” he said in his ministerial winding-up speech in the State Legislative Assembly today.
Meanwhile, he said the department is working closely with the British Museum London to send a curator for the International Training Programme from July to August.
Touching on publications, he said the annual publication of the Sarawak Museum Journal is expected to be in November this year.
“Two books to be published are the ‘Rumah Sri Aman Project’ and the ‘Green Turtle in Sarawak’,” he added. As of 2022, the department has published one Sarawak Museum Journal and nine books namely ‘Topeng Koleksi Di Muzium Sarawak’, ‘Keringkam Koleksi Muzium Sarawak’, ‘Manuskrip Jawi Koleksi Terpilih di Jabatan Muzium Sarawak’, ‘Numismatik Koleksi Syiling dan Duit Kertas di Jabatan Muzium Sarawak’, ‘Rock Art in Sarawak’, ‘Permainan Zaman Kanak-Kanak di Sarawak: Etnik Melayu Sarawak Siri 1’, ‘Mollusca Snail: Gastropoda in Sarawak Museum’ and ‘Koleksi Muzium Sarawak: Budaya Sarawak dan Warisan Etnik’ and ‘The Bones’
