page_title: Malaysian Heritage and History Club
hierarchical_section_title: Malaysian Heritage and History Club
caption_attribution_description: English: Roots KL Exhibition and Talk Programmes and activities
context_page_description: Malaysian Heritage and History Club aims to provide an objective, truthful and balanced account of Malaysian history, promote inter-ethnic relations and forge greater national unity.
  Background
  MHHC is a Facebook-based group, created on October 13, 2012. The Club as of May 21st, 2017 has 16,487 members. Topics discussed in the group are mostly Malaysian history, heritage, culture, wildlife and natural heritage. The group is often used as source of information by students, researchers, individuals, online websites and local dailies.
  On the Facebook platform, English is the preferred language in the Club to benefit its international audience and enable a wider scope for exchange of ideas. Bahasa Malaysia and other languages are acceptable. Where translations are not provided, other members of the group will offer translations, particularly when important topics are being discussed or when requested. Author and composer Saidah Rastam in her book Rosalie and Other Love Songs, acknowledged the Club - " The Malaysian Heritage and History Club has irreverent but erudite members ".
context_section_description: Malaysian Heritage and History Club (MHHC) aims to provide an objective, truthful and balanced account of Malaysian history, promote inter-ethnic relations and forge greater national unity.
  Background
  MHHC is a Facebook-based group, created on October 13, 2012. The Club as of May 21st, 2017 has 16,487 members. Topics discussed in the group are mostly Malaysian history, heritage, culture, wildlife and natural heritage. The group is often used as source of information by students, researchers, individuals, online websites and local dailies.
  On the Facebook platform, English is the preferred language in the Club to benefit its international audience and enable a wider scope for exchange of ideas. Bahasa Malaysia and other languages are acceptable. Where translations are not provided, other members of the group will offer translations, particularly when important topics are being discussed or when requested. Author and composer Saidah Rastam in her book Rosalie and Other Love Songs , acknowledged the Club - " The Malaysian Heritage and History Club has irreverent but erudite members " .
  The Club organises many activities outside its Facebook platform, starting with Heritage Talks in Malacca since March 2013 and Heritage Talk KL Series in September 2013. Speakers are sourced from the Club members itself based on their own fields of expertise. Events are conducted in the spirit of sharing and collaboration. Most of the talks can be viewed on the Club's dedicated MHHC Youtube channel.
  Club's Logo
  The boat represents the journey of sharing and learning, discussions and debates sometimes stormy, sometimes calm. The color red is bold and brave - speaking out of the mind, yellow represents  knowledge, blueish green sea waves signify challenges . Multiracialism and multiculturalism are represented by the use of multilingual text.
  Heritage Talk
  In March 2013, the Club organised its first monthly series of Heritage Talks in Melaka . Speakers were sourced from the Club members according to their expertise. 
  They were held in Riverine Coffeehouse in Lorong Hang Jebat, Melaka from March 2013 to January 2015, before it closed down.
  Daily Fix Cafe, which is located at Jonker Street (Jalan Hang Jebat) then offered its premises for the talks in March and April 2015. The last talk in Melaka was on WG Shellabear and was held at Shellabear Hall a former boarding house for Methodist Girls School in Tranquerah, Malacca.
  Heritage Talk KL Series
  As membership grew bigger, there were requests for talks to be held in Kuala Lumpur . D7 Sentul offered to host for KL talks starting in September 2013 . 
  On September 2015 onwards all talks in KL were held at Badan Warisan, Kuala Lumpur.
  MHHC Big Events
  September 5/6, 2015 - People's Merdeka Exhibition - Badan Warisan, KL
  October 17, 2015 - Save Pekan Ampang - Heritage Talk and Photo Walk, Ampang Community Hall
  April 2, 2016 - MHHC Wild Wildlife with Tenok and Friends - Badan Warisan, KL
  September 3, 2016 - People's Youth Exhibition - Badan Warisan, KL
  November 19, 2016 - MHHC's Roots of Malacca - NUS School of Architecture at Tun Tan Cheng Lock Center, Melaka
  November 26, 2016 - Roots Kuala Lumpur - Badan Warisan, KL
  March 18, 2017 - MHHC Wild Wildlife with Kanchil and Friends - Badan Warisan, KL
  Other Initiatives
  In 2015, a collaboration with the Portuguese Malacca community and Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum Melaka was started  to revive the old Melaka Chinese New Year practices. The Serani Teng Teng was revived and reintroduced during the New Old Malacca Exhibition. Serani Teng Teng is a group of buskers consisting of 3 Portuguese boys who went busking door to door around Malacca town on the first day of Chinese New Year. The revival of the Serani Teng Teng  received wide media coverage and the actual busking took place during the first day of Chinese New Year in 2016
  The first publication from the Club was launched during the People's Merdeka Exhibition in September 2015. The book/zine "Messing with Melaka" consists of Melaka's historical facts, suggestions of places to eat and visit within 24 hours .
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caption: Roots in KL
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