Kuala Lumpur City Gallery is located on Jalan Raja, Merdeka Square, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and holds a permanent exhibition focusing on the history of the city.
The KL City Gallery building, completed in 1898 and designed by A. C. Norman, government architect of the Federated Malay States, was originally constructed to house the British administration's printing office. It was responsible for printing all government official publications for the FMS, and those of FMS Railways.
Prior to 1890, the printing for the state of Selangor was carried out by the Singapore and Straits Printing Office in Singapore. In March 1890 John Russell arrived from England to create a printing office for Selangor, first establishing an office in Bluff Road on the hill overlooking the padang, before moving into the existing building on Jalan Raja in 1898.
KL City Gallery was founded in 1989 after the building saw various changes in purpose and occupier after it ceased to be used as a printing office. Tenants included the Ministry of Labour and the Postal Authorities. The building consists of two floors of exhibition space, a cafe, a museum shop, and acts as a tourist information centre.
On the ground floor is a permanent exhibition called "Memories of Kuala Lumpur" which includes old photographs and maps on the history of Kuala Lumpur from its founding to independence. It also shares the space with temporary exhibitions.[3][4]
On the first floor a large model of Kuala Lumpur which describes the history of the development of the city through a light and sound presentation. It is housed in a darkened room with viewers only permitted entry at the start of the show.
MERDEKA SQUARE
Independence Square is a square located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is situated in front of the Sultan Abdul Samad Building. It was formerly known as the Selangor Club Padang or simply the Padang (meaning "field" in Malay) and was used as the cricket green of the Selangor Club (now the Royal Selangor Club). It was here that the Union Flag was lowered and the Malaysian flag hoisted for the first time at midnight on 31 August 1957. Since then, the Independence Square has been the usual venue for the annual Independence Day Parade.
In the early days of Kuala Lumpur, the Chinese and Malay communities settled along the east bank of the Klang River. To the west of the river was land originally owned by Yap Ah Loy and was used to plant vegetables. In 1880, the state capital of Selangor was moved from Klang to Kuala Lumpur by the colonial administration. The then British Resident William Bloomfield Douglas decided that the government buildings and staff living quarters should be located to the west of the river to keep away from what he considered, as the unsanitary conditions of the town and the possibility of uprising from the locals] The government offices and a new police headquarter were built on Bukit Aman, with accommodation for the police located on Barrack Road (now Jalan Tangsi and part of Jalan Raja). A patch of swampy and uneven ground immediately to the west of the Klang River was then levelled and drained to be used as a training ground for the police. The land was acquired from Yap by the British Resident Frank Swettenham for $50 per acre in 1882.This patch of land, originally named the Parade Ground, would become the Padang. Ten years later in 1892, the Acting British Resident Ernest Birch who was a keen cricketer then started to smooth over the ground so that it may be used as a cricket ground and other sports.The Selangor Club clubhouse was built at the present location in 1890 and the St Mary's Church was built in 1895.
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