The two storey solid wooden building housing the museum today was built in the year 1897 as a fort by the second White Rajah, Charles Brooke to impose peace and order in the region where warfare among the local tribes prevailed.
Ironically located at a depression of the hills and surrounded by higher terrain, Hilltop Garden is a small residential community that was built in the mid 1980s just off Riam Road.
The two storey solid wooden building housing the museum today was built in the year 1897 as a fort by the second White Rajah, Charles Brooke to impose peace and order in the region where warfare among the local tribes prevailed. 
Ironically located at a depression of the hills and surrounded by higher terrain, Hilltop Garden is a small residential community that was built in the mid 1980s just off Riam Road.