Don't be put off it's an exhilarating experience just attempting to come to grips with such vast collections of painting, sculpture, and artifacts from 5000 b.c. to 1848 (from which date the Musee d'Orsay's French collections continue the story to 1914).
Sculptures and paintings are among the vast collections.
In its glorious 15th-century heyday, it had been the most vital port in Southeast Asia, with as many as 2,000 ships docked as the city's sultans expanded their territorial reach from the wealth of trade to as far as Pahang and Singapore and even to the east coast of Sumatra.