The building displayed above was a temporary location. The Hash Heritage Foundation, You find them here, is finalising their re-creation of the original Hash House in Kuala Lumpur. The museum will move into that venue. We keep you posted.
The Hash House Harriers are obsessed with showing their uniqueness. Each of the over 1500 chapters in the World has it's own designs of t-shirts, hats, bottle openers, shot glasses and whatever else. They design new versions of those whenever they organise a special event or for no reason whatsoever
Hashers travel a lot, visit other chapters in as many countries as possible and bring those parafernalia home to impress their friends (who make an effort not to show that they are impressed). The Hash House Harriers Museum has the largest collection of these parafernalia for you to see and touch. You are more than welcome. Neptunus is your host and he will show you round and offer beer and snacks and whatever else you need.
Parafernalia are only one aspect of the rich Hash House Harriers history and Neptunus is not the only one trying to preserve it for eternity. Amongst others ....
Hazukashii wrote a book about hash history, available for download here. He also manages the most comprehensive website with hash chapters and international hash events. https://gotothehash.net/
There is also a Hash Heritage Foundation that is building a "Hash House" in Kuala Lumpur, inspired by the original where it all begun in Kuala Lumpur. You find them here. The Hash museum will move into the premises in a couple of years.
There is a on-line collection of Hash T-shirts, almost as many as in the Kuala Lumpur physical museam. Find it here.
Genealogy: Hash Chapters are founded and die again or go dorment for a while. Someone decided to keep track of these developments. Look at the most complete genealogy here.
Neptunus will dedicate the remainder of his mortal life to preserve hash t-shirts and other parafernalia for eternity. He settled down in Kuala Lumpur where you can visit his museum, watch and touch all there is to see. Also learn about ambasadors Haggissimo , Sir Higgins and Moose Diver . And there is Pink Panter (without the "h") of course.
Neptunus
Well .... what is there to say. The pictures below speak for themselves.
How it started
Neptunus was and is one of those hashers that travel the World to do as many runs as possible with as many different kennels (or chapters if you prefer) as possible. Neptunus kept all the T-shirts and Paraphernalia he got from his Hash travels. This obsessive compulsion started to get problametic in 1992 and has only gotten worse since then.
In 2008 he moved into a rather large, brand-new 1930ties style house in The Hague and started decorating it with his hash Paraphernalia. When setting trails from his house, hashers dropped their jaws in aw and stumbled: “This place looks like a museum! I have some stuff for you as well if you want”. It got from bad to worse. Old museum Pictures More Old Museum Pictures
Big donor
The first, huge donor was Timekeeper. A 91 year old hasher from Assen H3. Unfortunately, he passed away before Neptunus could get the shirts from his warm hands. Luckily his widow knew about the Neptunus’ ambition and she contacted him to pick it all up; 450 T-shirts! This was only the beginning, many many donations were made by local and international hashers.
Growing bigger
The big house was not big enough. Neptunus rented parts of an abandoned office building. Low rent and no solid lease. He could be kicked out with four weeks notice. He moved his collection twice in a couple of years.
Malaysia
The last time Neptunus was kicked out of his temporary lodgings, there was no alternative location available in the greater The Hague area. Luckily a hasher friend (Neptunus has many of those) from Malaysia offered him a place near Kuala Lumpur, in Bandar Saujana Putra. Everything was shipped to Malaysia, just before Covid broke loose. The humongous pile of boxes were just standing there for 2 years until travelling was allowed again. It soon turned out the place was too small and too far from Kuala Lumpur to receive many visitors.
Covid pandemic
During Covid lock down, Neptunus felt lonely without his beloved Hash T-shirts comforting him. Malaysia was still out of order but he was allowed to travel again in Europe. he made a 6 week tour and visited Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic and Belgium to collect a whopping 1200 T-shirts! Pictures from his tour and The results of the Post-Covid road trip
Two locations
This new, European collection was on display in his small house in Rotterdam. He found another place in The Hague (Lots of pictures here) which he maintained for a few years and then Neptunus officially retired from his paying job, no need to travel back and forth to Malaysia any more. Pablow, a Dutch hasher and logistical genius, offered to send the complete The Hague collection to Kuala Lumpur. Pictures of shipping to KL (Rotterdam Harbour)
Current Location
Pictures of Setting up the museum in Kuala Lumpur
Desperately seeking for an alternative for his too small location in Bandar Saujana Putra, he ran into something big enough, not too expensive and within easy reach of any hasher visiting Kuala Lumpur. It was moving time again!
The current location of the Hash Museum was officially opened on the 28th of July 2024 with an Inaugural Run and Party. 135 hashers were present. This location is again only temporary. The Hash Heritage Foundation is rebuilding a Hash House that is inspired by the original Hash House where the Hash House Harriers originated. It will not be the same, it is not even in the same location but who cares. It will be a place of pilgrimage for the global hash community. The main building is almost ready. When the annex is also ready (scheduled half/end 2027), the museum will move to its final, permanent location.
Contributors
Getting the museum up and running was (and still is) almost a full time occupation. Neptunus did get a lot of help. Everyone that donated their shirts and paraphernalia of course, there would not be a collection without them. But a lot of people contributed their physical labour and offered financial and logistical support. I mention them in no particular order. They all earned lifetime free visiting rights to the museum, just like anyone else.
Many thanks to Coconut, Pablow, Double Whopper and just Paula, More On, Higgins, Bruce Almighty, Skinhead, Urine, Hazukashii.
Legacies of hundreds of T-shirts from Timekeeper (Netherlands), Loudspeaker Box (Malaysia), Maharaja (Malaysia), Don Cheang (Malaysia), Hush Puppy (Netherlands), Bromfiets (Netherlands), Bill Panton (Malaysia), Magic/Tim Hugues (Thailand) and Sir Higgins (Belgium).
Many many more. If I forgot to mention you? It does not matter, you still earned lifelong free visiting to the museum in its current or future location.
Financial contributions
There is a separate section on this website on how the museum is organised and funded. Look for the sections Organisation and Funding below.
There are many many pictures of the museum and picture taken by visitors to the museum. The links below sends you these pages. In more or less chronological order. Have fun.....
Tour of the 2021 European Road trip
Results of the Post-Covid road trip
Setting up the museum in The Hague in 2022
Shipping to KL (Rotterdam Harbour)
Small selection of pictures from the numerous visitors to the museum over the years
There are four ways to help the museum to become a bigger success than it already is.
(currently on hold) When your are in Kuala Lumpur, visit the museum and then come back to help sort things out. There are shirts to be sorted, handed, and ironed. All sorts of paraphernalia need sorting as well. Your help will be greatly appreciated.
If you have brilliant ideas and helpful suggestions, they are greatly appreciated. Specially if you are also able and willing to implement them. Contact Neptunus via his e-mail or telephone/whatsapp
(currently on hold) Send all your shirts and paraphernalia to the museum. Please add brief a text that tells what your stuff is all about and how to categorise. That makes the handling a lot easier.
Non-profit organisation
The Hash House Harriers Museum is registered as a non-profit both in the Netherlands and in Malaysia.
The Netherlands: Stichting tot behoud van het HHH Museum
Registration number: 863136941
Registration date: 15-OCT-2021
Malasya: Persatuan Hash Muzium
Registration number: PPM-017-14-31122024
Registration date: 31-DEC-2024
Board
President - Nathlie
VPresident - Johan
Secretary - Thanabal
Asstistent Sectratery - Tan See Meng
Treasurer - Ivan
Members
Lim Mei Fong
Vickneswaran
Crazy Horse
Ambassadors
Financial situation
The museum has no structural financial means, it depends entirely on gifts from the Hash community. An online survey from Xmas 2024 found out many hashers like the museum concept so early 2025 we started a 6-month fund-raising campaign. Running from Gispert Memorial Day (11 February) until Gispert Birthday (31 July), it generated enough money to pay the rent until the 2027 move. Thanks to all generous contributors!
Support from the Hash community
The museum works very close with the The hash heritage foundation. This group is building a Hash House in Kuala Lumpur, inspired by the original Hash House that will serve as a place of pilgrimage for the global hash community. The museum will also be based there in a couple of years when the second building is ready.
The Museum
Neptunus (read about him)
E-mail: dijkhuizen.neptunus@gmail.com
Telephone/WhatsApp: +60 10 903 8771
Visiting address (after making an appointment)
Ambassadors
Haggissimo
E-mail: ianmcleod2008@gmail.com
Telephone/WhatsApp: +66 952 304 614
Sir Higgins
E-mail: hhhhiggins@gmail.com
Telephone/WhatsApp: +32 486 50 65 66
Moose Diver
E-mail: tjgrennan@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone/WhatsApp:
The Board
Secretariat
E-mail:
Telephone/WhatsApp:
The museum has no structural financial means, it depends on gifts from the Hash community.
For over 16 years Neptunus funded the museum mostly by himself, with the occasional help of a few hashers. The move to Malaysia and expansion of the museum meant higher costs. The money received in 2023/2024 - of which €10,000 from Eurohash 2023 - eventually ran out, requiring a new funding approach.
An online survey conducted around Xmas 2024 generated almost 500 responses, showing there is a strong enough interest to keep the museum going. So we launched a fund-raising campaign in February 2025 in order to pay the current building rent and maintenance costs until the museum moves to its final self-funding location, anticipated in summer 2027.
In parallel, we looked for a cheaper place to host the collection until the 2027 move. Luckily we quickly found a new location, still in Kuala Lumpur.
As of July 2025 we are pleased to report that the money collected combined with the cheaper rent means that the collection hosting is paid for until the end of 2027.
How to financially contribute to the museum
Many hashers reached out to Neptunus with friendly suggestions and questions. The most important are listed below and are taken very serious. Quite a number of them are already implemented on this website, at the museum and in the organisation of the museum. The document with the questions and suggestions can be downloaded here here.
