Wrangling over artefacts belonging to Malay pioneer Haji Yusoff Mohamed Noor

Hidayah Amin at the Haji Yusoff Museum on the third floor of 717 North Bridge Road. PHOTO: COURTESY OF HIDAYAH AMIN
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SINGAPORE – Award-winning home-grown writer Hidayah Amin’s journey to start a museum for her great-grandfather, Malay pioneer Haji Yusoff Mohamed Noor, is one fraught with much administrative wrangling and frustration.

Her family, one of the most prominent in the Singapore Malay community, had loaned 28 items to the Malay Heritage Foundation in 1999, when the Government acquired their family home at the historic Gedung Kuning at 73 Sultan Gate.

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