Gallery featuring famed Malaysian cartoonist Lat’s childhood to open after seven years
Wednesday, 27 May 2020 01:09 PM MYTRumah Lat Dan Galeri at Batu Gajah will open to the public this year-end after its ground breaking ceremony in 2013. — Photo via Facebook/ Rumah Kartun & Komik Malaysia-MCCH
At the gallery, you can travel back in time, complete with various items from Lat's childhood as well as furniture, mostly from the pre-World War II era,Among the collection are a dressing table, a set of tables and chairs, a framed mirror, a rack for hanging clothes and a cupboard where Lat used as a storage space for his beloved vinyl records and shirts when he was about 19 years old.
“These were among my prized possessions at that time. You save up for ages to buy records and my shirts were really very nice because I believed in looking dashing at that age,” he said.
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