National Museum

Due to the Chinese New Year public holidays these two days, the National Museum was open to the public with its entrance fees to ALL exhibits waived... Not wanting to miss this opportunity, my mom and I decided to become tourists in our own country and head down to have a look-see after major renovations were done and a new wing opened just a few months ago. The FREE-OF-CHARGE label did attract many curious Singaporeans whom seemed like they have not even visited the museum in their entire life. Of course the lucky foreign tourists I'm sure were feeling so heng because they didn't need to pay as well... lol. I'm also guilty of being kiasu, if not I wouldn't have gone to the museum because it was FREEEE. I'm so stereotyping Singaporeans on the whole as being kiasu, can't help it... It must be something in our blood or maybe it was infused into us when we were small kids in primary school drinking those packets of chocolate / strawberry milk.

The ONLY exhibit worth seeing (and probably spending money to) will be the Singapore History Gallery. Its something we as citizens can really relate to... Rather than viewing some nonesense arty-farty stuff, the queue to the gallery was the longest.

Alot of hard work has been put into the new Singapore History Gallery which is now housed in the new wing of the museum. Visitors are now handed this cool device that gives you narration of each section of the gallery. And mind you its not some stupid lousy cheapo device... Its a device that has a colour screen! What visitors do is to key in the numbers found on the floor when they arrive at each section of the gallery and the narration will be in progress. You can even key in numbers next to items in the showcases to know more about them! How uber cool is that! Its so high-tech... All put together very well.

The original painting of your best friend... lol.