KUCHING: The Sarawak Museum is set to receive over 400 Bornean artefacts from a Dutch museum this year. He said a transfer agreement was signed between the Sarawak Museum Department and the Dutch museum on June 19 and July 4 this year and the artefacts were expected to arrive by the end of the year. Abdul Karim said the Sarawak Museum was also collaborating with other foreign institutions such as the British Museum and Natural History Museum in London and Reinwardt Academy in the Netherlands. He said this was part of the new Sarawak Museum Campus project, which was being developed according to international museum standards and targeted for completion by the end of 2019. He said his ministry anticipated five million visitors in total this year, up from 4.66 million last year.

Source: The Star November 16, 2017 07:07 UTC