Visit to the Singapore Museum-Part 11-Other purposes

I have finally come to the end of my museum posting. The museum is not only a place just to view the exhibits of Singapore history.

It is a beautiful place to have your wedding photos taken in here.

I wish I had mine taken 25 years ago in the museum and then I can put my wedding gown in the museum as exhibit......lol

This is a very nice shot.

As it is the school holidays for Singapore kids, the museum set up special corners for the children to have some fun.

You can see how big and spacious the museum is.

Pipes and wires are fun to play with too.

That's all folks on my visit to the National Museum of Singapore. To know more about the museum you can view its official website in here.

Visit to the National Museum-Part 10-Wayang and Fashion

This wil be my second last series of posting of the museum.

Now this looked so scary and spooky. It is in the fashion gallery of the museum. Admission to this part of the museum is free of charge.

The bridal gown looked like a headless and limbess ghost at first glance....lol

These hair rollers looked so familar, I remember using them when I was young...hahaha.

Noticed the lower and short sewing machine. That is powered by hand. I used that during my secondary school, you use your right to turn the wheel of the sewing machine and your left hand to guide the fabric while the other sewing machine is powered by legs.

Nowadays the sewing machines are all run by electric and computerized.

This part of the exhibits are in the wayang gallery. I love the costumes and accessories displayed there. You should actually watch a live performance of the wayang. You can see my posting of a local wayang in here.

There are so many more interesting exhibits at the museum, you need to go there to view.

Skywatch Friday - Visit to the National Museum - Part 9

I almost done posting with my series of photos for the museum...lol. Hope you are not bored with museum now.

These are my contributions for Skywatch Friday.

The ceiling of the new museum (extension of the old museum) are also made of glass.

You can see that the museum is so big and spacious.

If you are an older Singaporean, you should recognize this spooky spiral staircase. I remembered when I was a child, I saw this staircase at the corner of the museum with a no entry sign. It was rumoured there were hidden secrets above. There were ghosts or mummies, etc hidden in there.But the truth was is just a staircase leading to the roof of the museum...lol.

A sculpture of a red pepper in the garden located on the highest floor of the new museum.

For other sky watchers, please hop over to Skywatch blog.

Visit to the National Museum of Singapore - Part 8 -

These exhibits are really very old and I get to see them when I was young. I remember these green spot and F&N orange bottles. Used to have them in our home especially during Chinese New Year and during those times, we really recycled them.

The F&N bottle could double up as rolling pin and we sold these bottles to the rag and bone man for recycling purposes.

This is a ice shaving maker machine. I used to buy ice ball from the drink stall near my school.

Ice ball is made from ice shavings and some ingredients like red beans are added in the middle of the ball and the drinks vendor would then shaped it into a ball and then pour some sweet syrup and coconut milk all over the ice ball. I remembered the ice ball cost ten cents and I would share with my friend by asking the vender to saw the ice ball into half. So we each paid only five cents. It is so cute and fun back then.

Tiffins used during the olden days. Nowadays the tiffin dont come with these beautiful designs on them.


Now this camera is really very antique. I remembered the cameraman using this camera and with a light bulb as a flash and it had to change the bulb frequently.



A very antique camera


Geez now I sounded like an antique myself ....lol

I bet these are things only people born during and before the 60s will be able to associate with.

Visit to the National Museum - Part 7-Jewellery

My last two posts on the exhibits are found in the new museum (a new extension of the old museum). The admission to the new museum is $10.

Today I will feature exhibits in the old museum and the admission is free of charge. It is very interesting to see these exhibits.

Some of the silver jewelleries used during the 1900s.