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The Peranakan Museum celebrates mixed ethnic residents, primarily Chinese/Malaysian. The exhibits are scattered in a historic house that showcases various customs, from jewelry to setting the dining room table.

Some Chinese customs remain, including the leg of ham for weddings and the furniture.

Singapore's Peranakan community is mostly Chinese who descended from traders arriving in the 19th century. Built in 1912, the museum was formerly the first modern Hokkien school in the Straits settlements.

Although the ceramics look very Chinese, the colours are more vivid than their classic Chinese counterparts.

The Asian Civilizations Museum has an exhibition featuring a 9th century cargo shipwreck that was discovered in the Java Sea in 1998. Over 60,000 ceramics from Tang China were found. The ship was presumably heading to the Middle East.

There are lots more ceramics in subsequent galleries.

Singapore forces compulsory army training on its young men. This museum showcases what happens in there to mould your enthusiasm and interest. Can you make this simple shelter in the middle of the jungle?

The army's role is crucial at times of social unrest.

In these days of personal freedoms, individualism, and greed, who would want to tidy up his room to a dust-less vacuum?

Gifts from other countries are displayed along a long section of glass cabinets.

The outdoor section has many decommissioned vehicles on display. Some are a bit battered up by the elements.

It is possible to enter the army barracks for a bus tour, but photos are forbidden and the recruits all went home for the weekend so the campus was deserted.

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The Peranakan Museum celebrates mixed ethnic residents, primarily Chinese/Malaysian. The exhibits are scattered in a historic house that showcases various customs, from jewelry to setting the dining room table.




Some Chinese customs remain, including the leg of ham for weddings and the furniture.









Singapore's Peranakan community is mostly Chinese who descended from traders arriving in the 19th century. Built in 1912, the museum was formerly the first modern Hokkien school in the Straits settlements.




Although the ceramics look very Chinese, the colours are more vivid than their classic Chinese counterparts.





The Asian Civilizations Museum has an exhibition featuring a 9th century cargo shipwreck that was discovered in the Java Sea in 1998. Over 60,000 ceramics from Tang China were found. The ship was presumably heading to the Middle East.









There are lots more ceramics in subsequent galleries.

















Singapore forces compulsory army training on its young men. This museum showcases what happens in there to mould your enthusiasm and interest. Can you make this simple shelter in the middle of the jungle? The army's role is crucial at times of social unrest.



In these days of personal freedoms, individualism, and greed, who would want to tidy up his room to a dust-less vacuum?



Gifts from other countries are displayed along a long section of glass cabinets.








The outdoor section has many decommissioned vehicles on display. Some are a bit battered up by the elements.






It is possible to enter the army barracks for a bus tour, but photos are forbidden and the recruits all went home for the weekend so the campus was deserted.