Kinta Tin Mining Museum

Tours, lectures & exhibits on the history of Malaysian tin mining from the 1800s to the present.

The full name of the Kinta Tin Mining Museum is the Kinta Tin Mining (Gravel Pump) Museum. It is located in Kampar, which, as part of Perak’s Kinta Valley, was an important tin mining centre from the late 1880s, through its heyday in the 1920s, up until the 1970s by which time production was in decline.