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The National Gallery Singapore, often known exonymouslyas the National Gallery, is a public institution and national museum dedicated to artand culture located in the Civic Districtof Singapore. It oversees the world's largest public collection of Singaporeanand regional art of the Eastern world, specifically of Southeast Asia, with a ...
The National Museum of Singapore is a public museum dedicated to Singaporean art, culture and history.Located within the country's Civic District at the Downtown Core area, it is the oldest museum in the country, with its history dating back to when it was first established in 1849, starting out as a section of a library at the Singapore Institution as the Raffles Library and Museum.
Annaratnam Gunaratnam, Mavis, 1953, Bronze sculpture, 49.0 x 37.0 x 22.0 cm, Collection of National Gallery Singapore. Annaratnam Gunnaratnam was a sculptor who was also the head of the art department of Raffles Girls' Secondary School in Singapore from 1948 to 1968. [32]
National monuments of Singapore are sites, buildings and structures in Singapore that have been designated by the National Heritage Board (NHB) as being of special historic, traditional, archaeological, architectural or artistic value. For historical significance ( World War II, self-independence of Singapore, transformation and the oldest ...
Gillman Barracks is a contemporary arts cluster in Singapore that is home to international art galleries, restaurants and the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, which are all housed in conserved colonial barracks. Gillman Barracks lies near to Alexandra Road, and the 6.4-hectare (16-acre) site covers Lock Road and Malan Road amid greenery.
Georgette Chen, Self Portrait, c. 1946, Oil on canvas, Collection of National Gallery Singapore Georgette Liying Chendana Chen (simplified Chinese: 张荔英; traditional Chinese: 張荔英; pinyin: Zhāng Lìyīng; born Chang Li Ying; 23 October 1906 – 15 March 1993), most commonly known as Georgette Chen, was a Singaporean painter and one of the pioneers of modern Singaporean art as well ...
The gallery's former entrance on level 2. The Singapore History Gallery is a 2,800-square-metre (30,000 sq ft) gallery located within the vicinity of the National Museum of Singapore. The gallery adopts a story-telling approach, unveiling different perspectives through tales of the past.
The curatorial team, led by Flores, consisted of a combination of Singapore-based and international curators, including Singapore Art Museum assistant curators Andrea Fam and John Tung, National Gallery Singapore assistant curator Goh Sze Ying, Manila-based independent researcher and curator Renan Laru-an, art historian and Seoul-based ...