Galeri Dato' Onn Batu Pahat

A place to learn your history

Good place to learn a bit about history

Though it is rather small, one can get a good glimpse of what a man Dato' Onn was. He left the party he founded at the height of movement. Why? The galeri unfortunately never tells and maybe it is intentional so that one will be spurred to investigate deeper.

If i were to put myself in the shoe of Allahyarham Dato' Onn, i couldn't have imagine how i did it..coming from distinguished family background, he has all the qualities leading revolutionary idea to free tanah melayu from communist and malay union. This place was once his residential, a peaceful spacious with greenery scene. Some of the land was taken for golfing activity. I came quite late in the afternoon and the weather was windy, calm. The building is a simple architecture with concrete outside while wooden inside having minimal furniture. This gallery showcasting a quarterly exhibition of our country tradition and during my visit, I've seen all types of old equipment and tools used at kitchens during ancient times.Some of the items were aged 1000 years ago from ming dynasty. Everything is so good except that if the management can do a promotion on this place in order for public to learn our history. The monitor should be functioning to play the history and the life of tanah melayu, the war, colonisation, freedom so that new generations can learn how expensive is independent. There were not so much of Dato' Onn life is exposed than few of his pictures. Place like this shouldn't be kept silence.

Small but well laid out in a nice house within a golf course. When we visited the curator was excellent, bringing the galeri alive.