The museum was constructed on a land belonged to the Malaysian Agricultural Development Authority at a cost of MYR24.7 million.[2] It was inaugurated and opened on 12 October 2004 by Kedah SultanAbdul Halim.[3][4]
Architecture
The museum is a 3-story building with a total area of 12,000 m2.[5] It resembles bushels of harvested rice stalks decorated with rice motifs.[6] The murals on the museum wall was done by 60 artists from North Korea.[7]
Exhibitions
The museum exhibits paddy cultivation process in Malaysia and the tools and equipment for the process over the past decades.