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Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia
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Appropriating the Founder: Raffles and Modern Singapore
Since 2015, many prominent protest movements around the world have targeted and called for the removal of memorials commemorating colonisers. The most famous example is the Rhodes Must Fall campaign which rallied for the removal of statues commemorating Cecil Rhodes, a British coloniser known for being one of the architects of the apartheid in South Africa.1 The increasing influence of the campaign has pressured governments and organisations around the world to remove any statues with colonial or racist legacies. Doing the exact opposite, Singapore held the Singapore Bicentennial in 2019, to commemorate the 'founding' of modern Singapore by the British 200 years ago.2 The year-long celebration featured a wide range of events and activities, including an augmented reality exhibition, a series of public talks and a book launch. One figure who was featured prominently in this act of national remembering is Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), the British administrator who is known as the 'founder' of Singapore.
Since its 'founding' by Raffles in 1819, Singapore remained a British colony until May 1959 when it managed to achiev
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by Ching Yook Ling and Mariko Maruyama
After a chatty and delicious lunch at Equilibrium Restaurant Capitol Plaza, a group of us museum volunteers made our way in the rain to the National Museum of Singapore. The gloomy weather could not dampen our excitement of the special tour organized for us, courtesy of the Friends of Museums. After being warmly greeted by two volunteer guides we were split into two groups; group was led by Sally McHale and she proceeded to guide us to the Singapore History Gallery at Level 1. This gallery narrated the development of our neighbouring country through 4 distinct eras: Singapura, Crown Colony, Shonan-to, and Post-War Singapore including the struggles in the road to self-government and independence, challenges of the future and the successful development of the country.
The Building
Before we entered the gallery, Sally, our guide, gave us a brief account of the building. Opened in 1887, the National Museum of Singapore, originally known as the Raffle’s Library and Museum, is the nation’s oldest museum and it celebrated its 130th anniversary in 2017.
Singapura (1299-1818)
First, we stood in front of a huge digital map the original of which was compiled by a Flemish cartographer, Abraham Ortelius, in 1570. Singapore was alrea
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By: Eugene Teng
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