Editing Kuching (section)

====Cultural====
[[File:Old Sarawak Museum.jpg|thumb|The [[Sarawak State Museum]] building was built by Rajah Charles Brooke in 1891 and designed based on the [[Architecture of Normandy|architecture]] of a [[Normandy]] town hall.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://seeds.theborneopost.com/2015/07/27/discover-sarawak-museums-architectural-origins/ |title=Discover Sarawak Museum's architectural origins |publisher=The Borneo Post Seeds |date=27 July 2015 |access-date=3 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803094516/http://seeds.theborneopost.com/2015/07/27/discover-sarawak-museums-architectural-origins/ |archive-date=3 August 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>]]
Kuching maintains several museums showcasing its culture and history. The [[Sarawak State Museum]] is one of the finest museums in Asia and is known as Kuching's oldest and most historical building, which exhibits collections of the indigenous races in Sarawak.<ref>{{cite book |author=Alice Yen Ho |title=Old Kuching |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GlhvAAAAMAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-983-56-0050-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Robert L. Winzeler |title=The Architecture of Life and Death in Borneo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=niS2FbfVzj4C&pg=PA160 |date=January 2004 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-2632-1 |pages=160–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Jan van Harssel |author2=Richard H Jackson |author3=Lloyd E. Hudman |title=National Geographic Learning's Visual Geography of Travel and Tourism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1LmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT530 |date=23 January 2014 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1-305-17647-8 |pages=530–}}</ref> Directly opposite the Sarawak Museum is the Borneo Cultures Museum which replaced the Tun Abdul Razak Hall. The Borneo Cultures Museum (opened on 9 March 2022) is a modern five-storey building with a distinctive architectural design that reflects Sarawak's unique traditional crafts and rich cultural heritage.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarawak Museum Department |url=https://museum.sarawak.gov.my/page-0-209-169-Borneo-Cultures-Museum.html |access-date=23 September 2022 |website=museum.sarawak.gov.my}}</ref> While located right behind the Borneo Cultures Museum is the [[Islamic Heritage Museum]].

Other museums in Kuching include the [[Chinese History Museum]], [[Kuching Cat Museum]], Sarawak Timber Museum and [[Textile Museum Sarawak]]. Kuching is also home to the first ever [[planetarium]] in Malaysia,<ref>{{cite book |title=Asiatechnology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ynq5AAAAIAAJ |publisher=Review Publishing Company Limited}}</ref> the [[Sultan Iskandar Planetarium]] which is adjacent to the [[Kuching Civic Centre]].