The YTL Museum in Kuala Selangor.
On a quiet stretch of Kuala Selangor, a modest family home now stands as the most personal chapter in YTL Group’s 70-year story. Recently unveiled, the YTL Museum occupies the original home of the Yeoh family, preserving the place where the Group’s founding values were first shaped long before YTL became a global infrastructure name.
The opening marks the culmination of YTL’s 70th anniversary and introduces Founders’ Day, a new annual moment of remembrance and service observed every 18 December — the birthday of the late Tan Sri Yeoh Tiong Lay, whose principles continue to guide the Group’s direction.
A Living Museum of Values
Tan Sri (Dr) Francis Yeoh, Executive Chairman of YTL Group of Companies.
Rather than functioning as a conventional corporate archive, the YTL Museum has been conceived as a living museum — one that connects past, present and future through shared purpose. Carefully preserved and sensitively reimagined, the Yeoh family home now houses a multimedia journey through YTL’s beginnings in 1955, when it operated as a small construction firm grounded in integrity and perseverance.
The narrative is structured around the core values that have defined YTL’s evolution. Through photographs, personal memorabilia and immersive storytelling, visitors gain insight not only into what YTL built, but how — and why — it was built.
“This museum stands on the very ground where my late father grew up,” says Tan Sri (Sir) Francis Yeoh, Executive Chairman of YTL Group of Companies. “While many may never have met him, his beliefs continue to live on through the way our people work, serve and support one another.”
Founders’ Day and the Spirit of Giving Back
Dato’ Mark Yeoh, Executive Director of YTL Corporation’s hotels and resorts division.
The museum’s opening coincides with the inaugural YTL Founders’ Day, reinforcing the idea that legacy is as much about responsibility as achievement. Observed annually, the day serves as a reminder that YTL’s success carries an obligation to give back to the communities it serves.
In conjunction with Founders’ Day 2025, YTL businesses across Malaysia and the region undertook coordinated community initiatives spanning education, environmental sustainability, social inclusion and community care. Collectively, these efforts saw RM1.4 million invested in community and environmental programmes, benefiting more than 2,100 families, mobilising 520 employees, and contributing over 5,000 volunteer hours. The initiatives also resulted in the recycling of more than 105,000 kilograms of waste.
Beyond 70
As YTL looks ahead to its next chapter — framed internally as Beyond 70 — the museum serves as both anchor and compass. It preserves the principles that guided the Group’s early years while offering future generations a tangible connection to the values that continue to shape its decisions today.
More than a tribute to the past, the YTL Museum is a statement of continuity — a reminder that enduring institutions are built not only on ambition, but on character, conscience and collective purpose.
