Anyone seen it yet, since it reopened in Dec last year?
I went yesterday, and thought that it was a breadth of fresh air when compared to the old National Museum I remember when I was there in my school days. Most of he stories told in the galleries are the usual S'pore ones - Raffles, WW2, PAP winning 1965 - but in a new twist, we do not only hear about the 'textbook' facts, we also get a slice of 'social history', which is the past according to the people on the streets, such as prostitutes, hawkers, rickshaw pullers etc. I thought these alternative voices give a good spin on the usual dry-facts we learnt in secondary school.
1 more thing: for those who don't like to read artefact info-panels, there are none in this new museum. Every visitor is given an ipod-like player with headphones, and you just have to select what you want to hear (stickers-with-numbers are displayed next to all artefacts), inout the number into the player, and LISTEN to the explanations. Brilliant!
Also, the new extensions to the onld museum make this a bright, new, transparent museum with lots of open, public, spaces for everyone to relax.
Only set-back is that the ticket into the museum is S$10.... But for me, it was well-worth it.
Tell me what you think about how this new museum tells the 'S'pore Story'.
i want to be the night security guard at a museum
i just when last wk ... i when in after 6pm , which is free.
de most interesting part i find is de photography , film & fashion sections