All those cameras captured by its ‘great grandbaby’ the smartphone – 11.16.15
After morning was spent walking around to discover steel rod installations and murals around town, I had some more relaxed early afternoon at a museum on the same street as my hostel – one I learned about on that same day.
PENANG’S CAMERA MUSEUM is a recently opened two-storey venue for exhibition of vintage cameras. Compared to most museums, its specificity in its collection makes one’s visit more intimate and not as intimidating. This worked as an advantage on my end as unlike previous visits to museums so overwhelming that I almost always end up hungry or with some headache (and I rarely get one!), this was palatable.
What greets you
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My experience with cameras is limited to digital one when I was in college followed by an attempt to play more with an DSLR a few years back until there were smartphones and action cameras. My visit to the museum is then more of the visual pleasure and an awe at the basics.
For it was a fine morning discovering expressions on the everyday – 11.15.16
While presence of steel rod sculptures within George Town came as a surprise, I knew about its most popular street murals prior to the trip. However, I didn’t expect such to be as many that discoveries happen of known (and unknown) ones happen randomly. Reliving that morning walk from more than a year later, I still could feel the amusement yet know with some tinge of sadness at the thought that in more years, these pieces could fade (or even disappear). Well, there’s sadness and that itch to go back.
What follows is a series of photos as my attempt at a virtual ‘walk-through’ with details on location and some personal notes (despite – of course – how one beauty of works like these is that ‘they’ are meant to speak to different people differently).
My interest in the island of Penang was mainly due to convenience given its relative accessibility from Kuala Lumpur. It turned out to be one of my favorite places as such a charming town of contradictions – its center both sleepy and vibrant, its streets reminiscent of both old and modern. While recognized as one of UNESCO World Heritage sites, to me it was simply a place friendly for walking – with each turn filled with surprises from iron sculptures retelling the place’ story to hand paints that make use of the raw structures in place. Combine walking and glimpses of the ordinary equal my dose of happy.
![[Penang, Malaysia] ~ Photos from a Camera Museum](https://iamnotravelplanner.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/30796013386_a2be45a622_o.jpg?w=672&h=372&crop=1)
![[Penang, Malaysia] ~ Where Dirty Walls are Neat](https://iamnotravelplanner.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/30528748880_d21814237e_o.jpg?w=672&h=372&crop=1)
![[Penang, Malaysia] ~ History in Iron Caricatures around George Town](https://iamnotravelplanner.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/30741900661_28d8cbeeed_o.jpg?w=672&h=372&crop=1)
I am no travel planner. 