Camera Museum

Welcome to the Camera Museum on Muntri Street — and I promise you, this is not your typical museum, lorry! You're about to step into a world of light, lenses, and technological dreams captured in over one thousand vintage cameras. But more than that, you're stepping into a beautifully preserved pre-war shophouse that tells its own story through original tiles and authentic colonial-era architecture. Before we even talk about the cameras, let's appreciate the building, yeah? This shophouse — probably built in the early 1900s — represents a particular type of structure that defined George Town for over a century. Those original floor tiles, worn smooth by thousands of footsteps over decades? That's real history under your feet. The wooden shutters, the high ceilings designed to catch every breeze in the tropical heat, the arrangement of space that made sense for the way people actually lived and worked in crowded urban neighborhoods — it's all authentically preserved. Shophouses like this one would have housed a family's business on the ground floor — maybe a textile shop or a sundries store or a restaurant — with the family living upstairs. The ground floor was public space, commerce space, where strangers came...