Day 2 in Singapore. Visit Museums is one of my interest whether I travel abroad or locally. So I suggest to visit National Museum of Singapore and Ga-yoon agreed. The admission fee is SGD10 per pax. We top up another SGD1 to view another two special exhibitions~ The Wedding Dress - 200 Years of Wedding Fashion from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Gold Rush - Treasures of Ukraine. We were astonish by the gold that exhibits in Gold Rush. We didn't take any photos in the exhibition hall as we thought it was prohibited. Later only we found out it was the "camera flash" that is prohibited. Anyway, the gold is exhibit in dark room, without flash it is impossible to take nice picture! We skip the wedding dress exhibition as they are having a launching and interviews.
Before enter into the main exhibition hall, that's the iconic Swinging Chandelier & Glass Passage above us which we did not miss out after we finish viewing all the galleries. The Glass Passage is built entirely of glass, 11m from ground level. One of the world's largest outdoor self-supporting glass structures. The glass ceiling allows visitors has a clear view of the Museum's Palladian and Dome.
There are 2 main gallery - Singapore History Gallery and Singapore Living Galleries. Singapore History Gallery, tells the story of Singapore from its beginnings in the 14th century to the modern period; and Singapore Living Galleries, exhibits food, fashion, film and photography. Instead of follow a museum tour, we choose to walk on our own with the auto visual guide, more flexible and we can skip and view whatever we want.
Singapore History Gallery
The Singapore History Gallery use the story-telling approach to show what the country went through under the Japanese occupation and history of Singapore in the past and to modern days. We snap some pictures while listening to the auto-visual guide when we tour along the 2,800sqm gallery! It took us around 1 hour plus to finish the entire gallery.
Singapore Living Galleries
The Living Galleries with four galleries has more items to view compare to the history gallery. The 1st gallery is Fashion Gallery which exhibits the shifting identities of Singapore women from the 1950s to 1970s.
Film & Wayang
We both like this gallery the most. View excerpts of early iconic films, movies paraphernalia and listen to various movie theme songs. Also trace the development of Chinese opera and the emergence of home-grown films as popular entertainment in Singapore.
Food Gallery
This section exhibits Singapore's street food life back to 1950s to 1970s.
Photography - Framing the Family
No offence but this gallery is a bit creepy. The lighting inside this gallery is very dim, I was standing at one of the corner of the gallery trying to get a best shot of all the photo frames, suddenly I had this goose bump attacked. Anyhow I rushed out after this & barely stay more than than 5 mins in this gallery.
Lastly, the museum architectural - the Rotunda Dome is also an attraction point to us since we both like heritage budling. Overall, we spent about 3 hours+ at National Museum of Singapore. Although the some of the culture and history are pretty similar to Malaysia's, it's worth for a visit.
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