So I was bored over the Christmas period and decided to pop by over to the newly refurbished National Museum. Nice! They have really done a great job with the place as the pictures below will attest.

As it has been raining like crazy, the weather was cool and the sky slightly overcast. It felt like I wasn't in Singapore at all. The museum, the location and the church steeple of Wesley Methodist Church next to it contributed to the feeling that I was somewhere else, perhaps Australia. Quite nice I must say. And with so little people there, it was an oasis of calm and solitude away from the crazy and messy Orchard Road which was thronged with shoppers on their final last-minute Christmas orgasm of shopping. *shudder*

The exhibitions were free (for the moment I think) and were well put up. Of course one can't expect Museum of Natural History standard or what lah, considering Singapore's short "officially recognised" history. So most of the stuff shown basically went back to the 1800s. Other than that, it was quite impressive. Unfortunately, I was too cheap to pay $8 for the exhibition on the Habsburgian Maria Theresa of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. But I did managed to catch the very interesting and entertaining video exhibit of Brian Gothong Tan that was projected 360^o around on the circular wall of the glass rotunda.









More about the museum at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Singapore

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