Petrosains: The Discovery Centre

Kuala Lumpur


Fill an educational few hours at this interactive science discovery centre, which has all sorts of buttons to press and levers to pull. Many of the activities and displays focus on the wonderful things that fuel has brought to Malaysia – no prizes for guessing who sponsors the museum.

As a side note, 'sains' is not pronounced 'sayns' but 'science'.


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