Urban Cultural Lens | UR-MU Urban Museum
Dedicated to the evolving story of the city, UR-MU Urban Museum offers a contemporary perspective on Kuala Lumpur’s cultural and architectural identity. Through immersive exhibits, photography, film, and design-led storytelling, the museum captures the rhythms, memories, and transformations that shape urban life.
Thought-provoking and deeply reflective, the space invites visitors to engage with Kuala Lumpur beyond its skyline — revealing the layered narratives, communities, and creative energies that define the modern city. Muse wears Farah Khan.
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Ni baru sikit!
Come and join us throughout this museum week for a more up close and personal interaction with our art collection. Ticket can be purchased on our website and be sure to join the tour on all three of UR-MU branches :)
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Through the eyes of Ng Sek San.
Join us this 15th May for an inspiring tour and talk by Seksan on his ‘Strategies of Dissent’ at +n by UR-MU. Discover the journey of protest and powerful storytelling that shaped this collection. Limited slots available, get your tickets now and do not miss this once in a blue moon opportunity.
🗓️ 15 May 2026, Friday
🕒 5.00 pm - 7.00 pm
🎟️ Tour and talk is included with museum admission fee: RM 20 (adult) RM 10 (student & senior citizen)
📍 +n by UR-MU
Tickets can be purchased on our website (link in bio)
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We hope we can host you as best as we can so here is some guides for the ones who have signed up.
Additional note:
Meeting point: UR-MU Bukit Bintang
Meeting time: According to your booking slot (10.00 am / 5.00 pm)
Don’t be nervous, just come and enjoy the tour.
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It was an honour to welcome YB Hannah Yeoh, Dep Minister of Finance Liew Chin Tong and DBKL Mayor Datuk Seri Tpr Fadlun at UR-MU +n last Tuesday.
Thank you for taking the time to walk through our space, engage with the works, and share conversations on the importance of arts, culture, and public spaces within the city. Visits like these remind us that museums are not only places to preserve objects, but also places for dialogue and community.
We truly appreciate the support and interest shown towards what we are building at UR-MU +n. May there continue to be more room for the arts to grow and reach wider audiences.
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Samsudin Wahab, or fondly known to many as Buden, a fiercely imaginative artist whose works helped shape a generation of contemporary Malaysian art.
From print-making and painting to sculpture, performance, and installation, Samsudin moved fluidly across mediums, building worlds where fantasy and reality collided. His works carried emotional tension, strange figures, rural memory, and reflections on the unpredictability of life itself.
At UR-MU, we are honoured to house several of his works within our collection. His presence continues to colour our museum, not only through the visual intensity of his works, but through the questions, discomforts, memories, and conversations they leave behind within the space.
His works remind us that art can be instinctive, vulnerable, unsettling, and deeply human all at once.
Thank you, Buden, for the worlds you built and the traces you leave behind.
Al-Fatihah.
UR-MU, after hours.
For one night only, the museum shifts with art coming alive, poetry echoing through the halls, alongside art debates and live performances. A different kind of encounter with the museum.
From 8 PM to 10 PM, wander through UR-MU @ Toffee and move between moments that call to you. A single ticket qualified you to all events and activities happening in the night, so plan your time and interest ahead.
Find all the details in our poster.
Sign up via the link in our bio (Night in the Museum).
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Where it all begins.
The Genesis Collection gathers 38 early works from 16 artists’ traces of thought, instinct, and experimentation shaped during their undergraduate years. Across new media, painting, sculpture, and ceramics, each piece holds a moment of becoming, still in motion.
During this short yet significant time, we invite you to be a part of these beginnings.
📍 The Project Room by UR-MU, Level 4 @ The Toffee, Raja Chulan
🗓 5 May - 17 May 2026
🕰️ 11.00 am - 7.00 pm (6.30 pm last admission)
🎟️ Free admission for UR-MU @ The Toffee visitors
✨Special for all students, free entry to The Genesis Collection Exhibition
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In observance of Labour Day, all UR-MU branches will take a short break on the 1st of May. Could’ve written a longer caption, but we’re getting ready for that said break, work can wait!
(To that laundy you plan to do, may it get done on this cuti. Happy Labour Day fellow hardworking people <3)
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We come to the end of Architecture of Devotion at The Project Room by UR-MU with a quiet conversation alongside Dr. S. Chanthiran, an artist who has spent over 48 years in devotion to his practice. Sharing space with a mind and body of work like his has been, in many ways, a privilege we are still learning how to hold.
Perhaps exhibitions don’t really end but linger in what they leave behind.
If anything, we hope this one carries forward the hopes and intentions of those before us, for future generations to keep observing, learning, and preserving the beauty of culture and knowledge, and to remain curious about where they come from.
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For Museum Week, we’re stepping out of the gallery and into the streets of Bukit Bintang. Ever wondered what once existed beneath the now-busy Bukit Bintang? That’s the same question we had too.
Join us and discover a few interesting facts and stories that live between these buildings and roads.
Find all the important details in the poster.
📌To register:
Click the link in our bio (BB Heritage Walk)
Share this post, tag a friend, and..would you love to walk with us?
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Museum Week returns!
Whether you’ve been with us before or are just passing through for the first time, this week is a chance to step in and be part of it (the best, most unusual part of it)
We have put together a series of programmes throughout the week; a nigth to be rememberd, shared conversations, and guided experiences designed to bring you closer to the works, and to each other.
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You can find the full programme in our post. Drop by when something speaks to you!
