Muzium Adat is translated as the Custom Museum, and there are three floors of displays describing the customs of Malaysians taking them through from birth to death. As such, this museum deals with all the different races which together make Malaysia the multicultural country it is. One could learn how to divine the sex of a child before its birth, and the rituals behind the circumcision of young boys, and how marriages might be arranged and celebrated.
There any rituals associated with timing of the rice planting and harvesting, and all this is described and illustrated with quite life-like models in appropriate costumes. And, as with many Malaysian museums, there is a section devoted to the local Sultan and a display of the different head dresses of the sultans from the various states which make up Malaysia. If you are driving this way (Kuala Klawang), it is well worth a stop.
What you cannot help but notice are the roof tops in Negeri Sembilan. The peoples who settled in this area came from Minangkabau in Sumatra, and the houses have a very distinct style with roofs which I think are supposed to represent the horns of a kerbau (water buffalo), as shown below. This blue building is just next door to the museum, and I think it is a school.
And just across the road from the museum is a municipal building with a very distinctive roof.
You see this motif repeated everywhere on government buildings, even on the toll booths. This is a state which celebrates its history.
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