Qualla: Keningau Heritage Museum https://qualla.com/keningau-heritage-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/8/f/w/keningau-heritage-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Keningau Heritage Museum https://qualla.com/keningau-heritage-museum Keningau Heritage Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/keningau-heritage-museum/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. The building was meant for passing officials, a government rest house erected in 1946 by the Borneo Construction Company during the brief era of British Crown Colony rule over North Borneo. It was completed the following year, a modest structure designed for bureaucratic convenience in the town of Keningau, deep in Sabah's mountainous interior. Decades later, that same building has become something its builders never intended: a museum that holds the most politically charged artifact in the state, the Keningau Oath Stone, a boulder that records the promises Malaysia made to the people of Sabah when the federation was formed.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/8/f/w/keningau-heritage-museum-wp/w8fw-keningau-heritage-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Keningau Heritage Museum: From Rest House to Repository https://qualla.com/keningau-heritage-museum/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. Keningau sits in the Interior Division of Sabah, surrounded by the Crocker Range and the peaks that define Borneo's mountainous spine. During the colonial period, the town served as an administrative outpost, and the rest house provided accommodation for officials traveling the d...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/8/f/w/keningau-heritage-museum-wp/w8fw-keningau-heritage-museum-from-rest-house-to-repository.mp3 0:06 2 full Keningau Heritage Museum: The Oath Stone Comes Home https://qualla.com/keningau-heritage-museum/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. The museum's most significant acquisition arrived in September 2018, when the Keningau Oath Stone was relocated to the museum grounds after years of political controversy. The stone, carved from a boulder pulled from the Pegalan River, records the constitutional guarantees made t...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/8/f/w/keningau-heritage-museum-wp/w8fw-keningau-heritage-museum-the-oath-stone-comes-home.mp3 0:06 3 full Keningau Heritage Museum: Soldiers and Stories https://qualla.com/keningau-heritage-museum/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 2015, the museum received a donation that connected two unlikely histories. A former Australian soldier who had married a local indigenous woman and settled permanently in Sabah donated wartime and personal artifacts to the collection. His story, of a foreign soldier who came ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/8/f/w/keningau-heritage-museum-wp/w8fw-keningau-heritage-museum-soldiers-and-stories.mp3 0:06 4 full Keningau Heritage Museum: A Window Into the Interior https://qualla.com/keningau-heritage-museum/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. Located in Mahathir Park, the museum has become one of the main tourism draws in Sabah's interior, a region that sees far fewer visitors than the coastal cities of Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan. Over 108,000 tourists visited Keningau between January and October 2018 alone, many draw...

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