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===Museums=== [[File:Pinang Peranakan Mansion.JPG|thumb|left|[[Pinang Peranakan Mansion]], stately mansion built at the end of the 19th century, residence and office of Kapitan Cina [[Chung Keng Quee]].]] Historical and cultural items from the Peranakan culture are displayed in [[Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum]], [[Straits Chinese Jewellery Museum]] and other cultural establishments on Heeren Street, [[Jonker Walk|Jonker Street]] and other streets in the same neighbourhood in Malacca; the [[Pinang Peranakan Mansion]] in Penang, Malaysia; and at the [[Peranakan Museum]], [[Baba House]] and the Intan Museum in [[Singapore]]. Furniture, food, and even traditional clothes of the Baba and Nyonya are exhibited. Free weekly street shows featuring Baba performances, and traditional and pop Chinese cultural performances are found in Jonker Street in Malacca. The shows are part of the night market scene, and are usually crowded with shoppers, both local and foreign. On 11 November 2011, [[Benteng Heritage Museum]] in [[Tangerang]], near Jakarta is opened to display mainly about [[Benteng Chinese]] uses an old genuine traditional Chinese Peranakan house. And in August 2013, the ''[[Museum Peranakan Indonesia]]'' was officially opened by the ''[[Yayasan Budaya Tionghoa Indonesia]]''. The museum is located at the [[Cheng Ho Museum]], next to the Hakka Museum, at the pavilion of [[Taman Budaya Tionghoa Indonesia]], [[Taman Mini Indonesia Indah]] in Jakarta. Other Peranakan cultural collections such as batik and bead works can also be found in museums outside of [[South East Asia]]. [[Honolulu Museum of Art]] and [[Australian Museum]] are known to exhibit such collections. {{citation needed|date=November 2021}} Apart from that, exhibition of Peranakan Chitty history, antiques and culture can be seen at the Chitty Museum in Kampung Chitty, Malacca, Malaysia. In 2013, there were controversies of development at the expense of demolishing part of Kampung Chitty, a historical and cultural village.<ref name="Peranakan Chitty">{{cite news |url=http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/now-development-threatens-historical-site-in-malacca |title=Now, development threatens historical site in Malacca |newspaper=The Malaysian Insider |access-date=14 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221113723/http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/now-development-threatens-historical-site-in-malacca |archive-date=21 February 2014 }}</ref> A proposal to construct a condominium, a hotel and a road cutting through the village are seen as a threat affecting the residents and a temple built in 1827.<ref name="Kampung Chitty">{{cite news |url=http://my.news.yahoo.com/39-road-kg-chitty-could-destroy-homes-39-043200736.html |title=Road through Kg Chitty could destroy homes |work=Yahoo! News |access-date=14 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302014551/http://my.news.yahoo.com/39-road-kg-chitty-could-destroy-homes-39-043200736.html |archive-date=2 March 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In Kelantan, the {{Lang|ms|Persatuan Peranakan Cina Kelantan}} or the Kelantan Chinese Peranakan Association (abbreviated as PPCK) have opened a gallery which provides visitors with various insights into the Kelantanese Chinese Peranakan culture.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vijayan |first=Sheela |date=27 November 2023 |title=Learn all about the Peranakan Chinese in Kelantan |work=[[Free Malaysia Today]] |url=https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/2023/11/27/learn-all-about-the-peranakan-chinese-in-kelantan/ |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
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