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List Of Museums In Singapore
This is a list of museums in Singapore: National museums * 8Q SAM *Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) *National Gallery Singapore *National Museum of Singapore *Peranakan Museum *Singapore Art Museum (SAM) Other museums *Tools of Old Singapore Museum *ArtScience Museum (Marina Bay Sands) *Baba House (National University of Singapore) *The Battle Box *Fort Siloso (Sentosa) * Fuk Tak Chi Museum *Images of Singapore (Sentosa) * The Intan *JCU Museum of Video and Computer Games *Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (National University of Singapore) *Madame Tussauds Singapore (Sentosa) *Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium (Sentosa) *Mint Museum of Toys *Nei Xue Tang Museum *NUS Museum (National University of Singapore) *Parkview Museum *Red Dot Design Museum Singapore *The Republic of Singapore Navy Museum *Singapore Philatelic Museum (SPM) *Singapore Pinacothèque de Paris *Singapore Coins and Notes Museum (SCNM) *Sports MuseumThe Gem Museum*Trick Eye Museum * Vintage Camera Muse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ..., or science, scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through display case, exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Images Of Singapore
Imbiah Lookout is Singapore's biggest cluster of attractions, it is located in Sentosa Island. The area contains 11 attractions. History Built in the 1980s, Imbiah lookout was unnamed until 2003. The area originally covered 30% of Sentosa's area. Later, much of Imbiah Lookout was demolished to make way for Resorts World Sentosa, so that it now only covers 20% of Sentosa, which is half the area of Mount Imbiah and down its slope facing Siloso Beach. Attractions Madame Tussauds Singapore Opened on 25 October 2014, the popular wax museum originated in London displaying the waxworks of famous historical figures as well as contemporary leaders, and show business personalities. The Singapore branch consists of 5 main zones of wax figures: Music, A-List Party, Sports, History & Leaders, and Film & TV. It also incorporates a 'Spirit of Singapore' boat ride, the first boat ride in a Madame Tussauds attraction. The 'Spirit of Singapore' boat ride takes visitors down a short trip down th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Museum (Singapore)
The Singapore Sports Museum is a sports museum in Singapore, located at the Singapore Sports Hub in Kallang. The Singapore Sports Museum was established in 1983 at the former National Stadium to preserve and showcase Singapore's sporting heritage. It was opened to the public in May 1983 to coincide with the staging of the 1983 Southeast Asian Games in Singapore. In 2007, its collection was temporarily moved to the Singapore Sports Council's (SSC) temporary office and heritage corners of selected SSC sports and recreation centres such as Jurong West and Sengkang, while a new iteration of the museum was constructed as part of the Singapore Sports Hub project, originally expected to be completed by 2011. The rebuilt museum reopened on 6 October 2014, which added new interactive exhibits, an exhibit paying tribute to the former National Stadium, and a new Singapore Youth Olympic Museum. The Singapore Sports Museum is affiliated to the International Association of Sports Museums an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore Coins And Notes Museum
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north. The country's territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet; the combined area of these has increased by 25% since the country's independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the third highest population density in the world. With a multicultural population and recognising the need to respect cultural identities of the major ethnic groups within the nation, Singapore has four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. English is the lingua franca and numerous public services are available only in English. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore Pinacothèque De Paris
Singapore Pinacothèque de Paris was a private art museum formerly located in the Fort Canning Arts Centre at Fort Canning Park, Singapore. It opened to the public on 30 May 2015 and had its last day of operations on 10 April 2016, citing "weaker than expected visitorship and other business and financial challenges faced". The museum in Singapore was the first international offshoot of Pinacothèque de Paris, a private museum in Paris which opened in 2007 and closed in February 2016 after going into receivership in November 2015. Background Singapore Pinacothèque de Paris, which had its official opening on 29 May 2015 and opened to the public the next day, covered about over three floors of Fort Canning Centre, a historic building at Fort Canning Hill built in 1926 for use as barracks by the British Army. The project was a joint initiative between Marc Restellini, Yves Bouvier Yves Bouvier (born 8 September 1963 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Switzerland, Swiss businessm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore Philatelic Museum
The Singapore Philatelic Museum ( Chinese: 新加坡集邮博物馆; ta, சிங்கப்பூர் அஞ்சல்தலை அருங்காட்சியகம்) is a museum about the postal history of Singapore and its stamps. Background The museum, located at 23-B Coleman Street in Singapore, was formerly part of the Anglo-Chinese School, completed in 1906. In the 1970s, the building became the Methodist Book Room until it was restored to become the present museum. The museum is currently closed for renovations. Singapore Philatelic Museum opened on 19 August 1995 to promote interest in and the appreciation of Singapore's history and heritage in philately. Besides the permanent galleries, the theme galleries offer a host of changing exhibitions throughout the year. These include displays from the private collections of renowned philatelists, travelling exhibitions from overseas and themed exhibitions to commemorate new stamp issues. The museum has a stam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Republic Of Singapore Navy Museum
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NUS Museum (IATA airport code), in Nuussuaq, Greenland
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NUS or Nus may refer to: *National University of Singapore * Nus, a town in the Aosta Valley of Italy * Neglected and Underutilized Species, or Neglected and Underutilized Crops * National Union of Students (Australia) * National Union of Students (Canada) (disbanded) * National Union of Students (United Kingdom) * National Union of Seamen * National University of Samoa * NUS High School of Math and Science * NUS, the product code used by Nintendo for Nintendo 64 hardware and software, a reference to the platform's preliminary name of Nintendo Ultra 64 * Norrland's University Hospital Umeå, Sweden * Nu Skin Enterprises (ticker code) * Nuussuaq Heliport Nuussuaq Heliport is a heliport in Nuussuaq, a village in the Upernavik Archipelago of Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. The heliport is considered a ''helistop'', and is served by Air Greenland Air Greenland A/S (formerly nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nei Xue Tang Museum
The Nei Xue Tang Museum ("Hall of Inner Learning") (Simplified Chinese: 内学堂）is a private museum of Buddhist art in Singapore. It is the first home museum in Singapore. The museum was created by collector Woon Wee Teng under a program enacted by the Singapore government to allow collectors to show their collections in their own homes. Opened in 2005, the collection is located in a four-storey pre-war house built in the Peranakan style on Cantonment Road. It is Singapore's first home museum. The museum is by invitation only. Singaporean billionaire businessman, Oei Hong Leong, houses most of his 50,000-piece collection of Buddhist artifacts at the Museum. In 2007, Woon announced plans for a much larger museum to house more Buddhist artifacts. Oei subsequently bought the museum but decided not to expand the museum. See also * List of museums in Singapore * Japanese sculpture * Khmer sculpture * Korean Buddhist sculpture * Lao Buddhist sculpture * Thai art * Buddha ima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mint Museum Of Toys
The Mint Museum of Toys is a purpose-built museum showing a private collection of vintage toys. It was officially opened on March 5, 2007, and officiated by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr George Yeo. The museum is located at 26 Seah Street, in the Arts & Heritage district of Singapore. MINT is an acronym for "Moment of Imagination and Nostalgia with Toys". Background The museum collection includes more than 50,000 toys and childhood memorabilia from the mid-19th century to mid-20th Century. All the toys displayed in the museum are the lifetime collection of Singaporean, Chang Yang Fa, an alumnus of St Andrew's School. Exhibits on display include Disneyana toys, Astro Boy, Batman, Bonzo the Dog, Dan Dare, Popeye the Sailor, Pre-war Japanese toys, including a 'Door of Hope' Chinese doll collection dating from the turn of the 20th century, Teddy Bear collection as well as Chinese comics and comic covers dating from 1920s, and ''The Adventures of Tintin ''The Adventure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium
The Maritime Experiential Museum (Simplified Chinese: 海事博物馆及水族馆 (''Maritime Museum and Aquarium'')), formerly the ''Maritime Xperiential Museum'' and the ''Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium'', was a museum in Resorts World Sentosa, Sentosa, Singapore, built to house the ''Jewel of Muscat''. It was opened on 15 October 2011 and was closed on 2 March 2020 to become part of the new Singapore Oceanarium, an expansion of the former S.E.A. Aquarium.Resorts World Sentosa's "media alert"Resorts World Sentosa Bids Farewell to Crane Dance and The Maritime Experiential Museum 13 January 2020. In: RWSentosa.com Jewel of Muscat The ''Jewel of Muscat'' is an accurate reproduction of the Arab dhow ship presented by the Sultanate of Oman to the government and people of Singapore after its arrival after recreating part of the Belitung ships's route from Oman to Indonesia. See also * Jewel of Muscat The ''Jewel of Muscat'' is a ship based on the design of the Beli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Tussauds Singapore
Madame Tussauds Singapore is a wax museum and tourist attraction at the Imbiah Lookout of Sentosa Island in Singapore. It officially opened on 25 October 2014 as the seventh Asian branch of the Madame Tussauds chain of wax attractions worldwide. Wax figures The wax attraction features many wax figures of notable political icons, famous superstars, sports icons and others, including Yusof Ishak, Sukarno, Lee Kuan Yew, David Beckham, Sharukh Khan, Johnny Depp and Lady Gaga. In 2015, a figure of the Singapore Girl, an iconic flight attendant for Singapore Airlines, was added. The figure was modelled after flight attendant Nur Surya Binte, and is the second figure to be made of the icon. A year later, the wax figure of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also added. Featured personalities ;World Leaders * Mao Zedong * Nelson Mandela * Yusof Ishak * Mahatma Gandhi * Sukarno * Lee Kuan Yew and wife Kwa Geok Choo * Barack Obama * Queen Elizabeth II * Goh Chok Tong * Lee Hsien Loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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