Visit to Peranakan Museum

(View of Peranakan Museum from outside)

Last weekend, I went to the new officially opened Peranakan Museum for a visit as it was opening festival and is FOC on those 2 weekends. It is actually situated at the former Asian Civilisations Museum at 39 Armenian Street, near the old National Library site and Fort Canning Park.

(View of Peranakan Museum - Daytime & Dusk)

It is nice to learn and expose to something new which I have not come across before. As a brief introduction, Peranakans are the descendants of traders from distant lands and SouthEast Asia local women when they settled down and married the local women. It has been historically recorded for centuries. In Malay term, “Peranakan” means “Child of” or “locally born” and it is usually used to refer to people of mixed ethnic origins. Below is the full explanation of Peranakans in English & Chinese.





(Explanation of Peranakan)

The building has 3 storeys and there are a total of 10 galleries & special exhibition galleries for visitors to learn about the lifestyle and culture of the Peranakan. It will probably take some time to finish walking and viewing all the galleries if you want to observe all the artifacts carefully. For me, I think I took quite some time since I was busy viewing and taking photos along the way.

(View of Internal Roof of Peranakan Museum)

For your information, the normal admission fee for Adult is $6, but it has a good deal of deal $2 admission on 3, 4, 10 and 11 May 2008 for those who are interested for a visit. Don’t miss it !! Ü

For more detail on Peranakan Museum, its admission fee and opening hours, please visit the websites below:

http://www.peranakanmuseum.sg

http://www.peranakan.org.sg/

http://www.visitsingapore.com/publish/stbportal/en/home/what_to_see/museums/peranakan_museum.html

Below are some photos of the exhibits that I took during my visit.

(Artefacts)










(Wedding Stuff)














(Wedding Costume)








(Jewellery)

(Other Costumes)

(Religion)









(Food & Feasting)