The Ranee Museum in Kuching shines light on the first queen of Sarawak

The Ranee Museum offers an insight into the inspiring Margaret de Windt, or Ranee Margaret, who is part of Sarawak's colonial history. At 19 she married the Second Rajah of Sarawak, Charles Brooke, and embraced a new life as queen. She would become renowned as an advocate for women’s rights, universal education, and loved by the Sarawakian people she would come to see as her own. Photo: Jee Photography

The Ranee Museum, located at the Old Court House building in the old part of Kuching city, can easily be spotted by anyone keen to get a glimpse at Sarawak's pre-independence history.

The museum, opened in late September, was set up by Brooke Heritage Trust co-founder Jason Brooke, a direct descendant of Charles Brooke, the second Rajah of Sarawak, and bears the tale of Sarawak's historic and cultural heritage.