Sarawak Kuching - Chinese area Kuching is the capital of Sarawak state, Kuching means "cat". The legend tells that when the city was ceded by the Sultan of Brunei to the English adventurer James Brooke, he was impressed by the amount of cats that roamed. Several sculptures and statues adorn the city, and the fact is that in Kuching there is the only museum in the world totally dedicated to cats. National Museum Complex.The Museum is divided into a series of buildings built in the Victorian era. Natural History and Wildlife, Indigenous Peoples and customs, culture, colonialist period and modern history of the state of Malaysian Borneo.