The new director of the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) Mr Tan Boon Hui is a heartland boy who did not study the arts. --ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
THE new director of the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) is a heartland boy who did not study the arts.
Mr Tan Boon Hui, 41, grew up in a three-room HDB flat in Jurong and holds a Bachelor of Arts and a master's degree in geography from the National University of Singapore.
The only child of a retired bus driver father and a housewife mother, he studied at Whitley Secondary School and Jurong Junior College.
He says with a laugh: 'Even today, my parents don't quite know what I do. All they tell me is, 'It is good you have a government job.''
On Aug 1, he takes over from established museum hand Kwok Kian Chow.
Read the full report in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times' LIFE!.
