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|A journey into Singapore's past
This history is explained and explored in the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) which offers a broad perspective of different Asian cultures, hoping to highlight the rich diversity in the cultures of Singapore's multi-ethnic society.
People have been settling in Singapore over the past 200 years but they came from a wide variety of places with traditions far older, and the museum seeks to focus on this fact.
Covering over 14,000 square-metres, the museum's main building is called ACM Empress Place and houses over 1300 artefacts in 11 galleries covering civilisations from China, Southeast Asia and Islamic parts of Asia.
The building also contains a cafe, restaurant, shop, auditorium and a function room which looks out over the Singapore River.
Exhibitions currently showing at the museum include 'Viet Nam! From Myth to Modernity', which explores Vietnam's cultural identity and runs until September 30th, and 'Seeing Red: Propaganda and Material Culture in China (1966 - 1976)', which looks at the Chinese Cultural Revolution and is on until October 12th.
21/07/2008
