Heritage in Space: The Palembang Songket Museum through the Lens of Contemporary Vernacular Architecture
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The Palembang Songket Museum occupies a limas house and brings textile heritage, domestic architecture, and museum functions into a single setting. This study examines how architectural form, spatial organisation, material expression, and documented cultural references are articulated in the museum setting. A qualitative single-case study was conducted in 2025 using non-participant observation, photographic documentation, spatial reading, available drawings, and a review of relevant literature and institutional sources. The analysis was organised into three dimensions: aesthetic-spatial characteristics, functional organisation, and sociocultural interpretation. The findings identify a raised-floor typology, layered roof form, timber-and-masonry construction, repeated openings, carved floral and geometric motifs, gold accents, and filtered daylight as prominent architectural characteristics. Functionally, the museum accommodates exhibition, collection-related activities, documentation, education, and small-scale commercial activity within a domestic-scale setting. The analysis also identifies constraints related to circulation, accessibility, environmental control, interpretive media, and collection documentation. Sociocultural interpretations are limited to relationships identified from architectural evidence and published literature; visitor perception and community attachment were not directly measured. The study shows how a vernacular house can provide a culturally specific architectural setting for the presentation of Palembang songket while also creating practical requirements for museum use.
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