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Peranakan Museum

Tun Tan Cheng Lock Trust donates $1.4m to Peranakan Museum for curatorial role

Curator Naomi Wang has been appointed as the inaugural Tun Tan Cheng Lock Curator of Peranakan Art.
Curator Naomi Wang has been appointed as the inaugural Tun Tan Cheng Lock Curator of Peranakan Art.

Peranakan Museum exhibition explores the peacock as status, religious, environmental symbol

Peranakan items featuring the peacock as a symbol of luxury and status.
Peranakan items featuring the peacock as a symbol of luxury and status.

Arts Picks: Peranakan Museum’s Batik Nonyas, Yeo Workshop’s textile art, Esplanade’s Voices festival

sfpicks28 - Batik Nyonyas_ Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship. Image courtesy of Peranakan Museum.

credit and copyright Peranakan Museum
sfpicks28 - Batik Nyonyas_ Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship. Image courtesy of Peranakan Museum.

credit and copyright Peranakan Museum

Arts Picks: Batik Nyonyas exhibition, Rattan Eco Sprawl art installation, Reflections Arts Festival

Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship follows the lives and careers of three Indonesian batik-makers as their business evolves in the hands of three visionary women in the Oeij family.
Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship follows the lives and careers of three Indonesian batik-makers as their business evolves in the hands of three visionary women in the Oeij family.

Clement Onn succeeds Kennie Ting as Asian Civilisations Museum director

Mr Clement Onn (left) will take over the directorship from Mr Kennie Ting from July 1.
Mr Clement Onn (left) will take over the directorship from Mr Kennie Ting from July 1.

Celebrating Peranakan culture with a wedding

Ms Penelope Thoo and Mr Kean Wee celebrated their wedding at a dinner and dance marking the 113th anniversary of the Gunong Sayang Association.
Ms Penelope Thoo and Mr Kean Wee celebrated their wedding at a dinner and dance marking the 113th anniversary of the Gunong Sayang Association.

NHB to launch Youth Heritage Blueprint under latest heritage plan

The NHB also wants to capture attitudes on heritage through an online youth survey, set to launch between July to August this year.
The NHB also wants to capture attitudes on heritage through an online youth survey, set to launch between July to August this year.

‘We are all updated Peranakans’: Reopened Peranakan Museum gives fresh spins to artefacts

Facade of Peranakan Museum 
Facade of Peranakan Museum 

Two 20th-century tables X-rayed at SGH ahead of Peranakan Museum reopening

Sidetables from the ancestral home of Tan Kim Seng, Panglima Prang, are scanned using X-ray as part of research and conservation efforts at Singapore General Hospital in Singapore on 26 November 2022.
Sidetables from the ancestral home of Tan Kim Seng, Panglima Prang, are scanned using X-ray as part of research and conservation efforts at Singapore General Hospital in Singapore on 26 November 2022.

Unravelling the DNA of Peranakan Chinese in Singapore

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MDDI (P) 046/10/2025. Published by SPH Media Limited, Co. Regn. No.202120748H. Copyright © 2026 SPH Media Limited. All rights reserved.