I love museums, and I especially love Singapore's museums. I'm a little embarrassed to say that this was my first time at the National Museum of Singapore. To make up for it, I was there twice in one day: two hours in the morning and three hours after lunch.
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One of Singapore's most stately and graceful buildings, IMO. |
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The Rotunda Dome is the museum's most iconic architectural feature, with 50 stained glass pieces of Victorian design. |
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The giant red balloons' strings are held by chocolate raisins. Wah, so cute! |
My main objective was the
Dreams & Reality exhibition, of course, but I had to wait an hour for the first guided tour of the day. So I explored.
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A perfect blend of old (neo-Palladian facade) and new (glass and steel). |
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So much light everywhere. I want to live in the National Museum of Singapore. |
At the second floor, you get a different perspective of
A Dozen of Those, created by Lim Shing Ee. It's a temporary art installation commissioned by the museum for their Night Festival 2011.
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I still dream about this art installation. |
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A dozen Raisinets. Wah, so cute again! |
Of the four Living Galleries-- Film and Wayang, Photography, Food, and Fashion-- my favorites were... Well, you should know me by now.
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The Food Gallery recreates the vibrancy of Singapore's street food culture from the 1940s to the 1980s. -from the NMS brochure |
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The Photography Gallery portrays 100 years of local life through photographic images and precious artefacts. -from the NMS brochure |
And then there's the Singapore History Gallery which is just bewildering in scope and unlike any other history museum I've even been in. Good thing there's the Companion.
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The Companion is a multimedia handheld device which allows visitors to read descriptions, listen to experts' insights and dramatised scenarios, and watch videos, that correspond to the exhibits. -from the NMS brochure |
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Visitors entering the History Gallery are greeted by a dramatic symphony with a montage of scenes of contemporary Singapore projected on the 360ยบ inner wall of the Glass Rotunda. -from the NMS brochure |
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I am completely in awe of the way the National Museum is curated. |
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So many interesting things in every nook and cranny. |
If I had more time, I would have loved to join this group.
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One of the best places to create art is where art resides. |
Five hours is not enough.
The National Museum of Singapore is located at 93 Stamford Road, just a five-minute walk from the Dhoby Ghaut MRT station on Orchard Road. They're open daily from 10am until 6pm (some galleries until 8pm).
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