Inside a block of dilapidated walk-up apartments in Bukit Bintang is Ur-Mu, a small art gallery with big ideas
Located in a neighbourhood along Jalan Bedara and one of the last residential areas in Kuala Lumpur's Golden Triangle, the Urban Museum or Ur-Mu is a purpose-built contemporary art museum by Dr Tan Loke Mun, principal of DrTanLM Architect and founder of DTLM group.
Tan, an art enthusiast who has been collecting contemporary works by Malaysian and regional artists since his university days, also owns the property but wasn’t sure what to do with it until he visited the Rembrandt museum in Amsterdam, which houses a magnificent collection within a limited space.
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The 1950s modernist four-storey walk-up apartment building features an original layout of eight two-bedroom flats, all of which were retained but with additions of a lobby, a roof-top garden, a lift, a washroom for the disabled, and a new façade.
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