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Widow invests $800,000 to start S'pore hawker culture experience centre in honour of late husband

Ms Lena Lee at Jiak 99, a hawker edutainment spot that introduces locals and tourists to Singapore’s hawker culture.

Law professor David Tan donates 82 designer jackets worth over $350k to S’pore’s National Collection

Law professor and collector of luxury jackets David Tan with some of the 80 of his 300 jackets that his donating to the National Museum, which plans to stage an exhibition of some of these jackets in 2027, photographed before the archival specialists arrived at his home to collect the jackets on Feb 24, 2026.

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.

A decade of zoological discovery: Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum turns 10

The museum houses over a million zoological specimens and the skeleton of a sperm whale.

Revamped gallery showcases Singapore’s long maritime history though new interactive exhibits

ST20250317_202580400360/vcgallery17/Brian Teo/Vanessa Paige Chelvan/Visitors exploring the newly refreshed Singapore Maritime Gallery at Marina South Pier on March 17, 2025. This section is part of the new maritime heritage zone, ?Tides of Time,? which traces Singapore?s maritime history back to the 3rd century and examines the role of maritime trade in the nation's growth and development. ST PHOTO: BRIAN TEO

Nafa acquires collection of Singapore’s only letterpress heritage studio to build print archive

The collection includes rare Chinese types, a newspaper mould and printing blocks of wedding invitations.

‘Art has given me longevity’: Lim Tze Peng ebullient about National Gallery solo show

shlim23/ST20241016_202464700415/Ng Sor Luan/103-year-old artist Lim Tze Peng at his house and studio ahead of a major survey at the National Gallery Singapore.

Arts Picks: ArtScience Museum’s AI fest, Wild Rice’s studio show Dive, Ang Ah Tee at Confluence

Singaporean artist Niceaunties has created her first real world work, an oversized inflatable of a garlic character, for the ArtScience Museum's In The Ether festival.

I want the National Museum to be the first pit stop for families: Museum director Chung May Khuen

National Museum of Singapore director Chung May Khuen in an interview with The Straits Times at the museum on July 22, 2034.

My Perfect Weekend with museum curator Patrick Flores

Dr Patrick Flores who is from Manila in the Philippines, has lived in Singapore for the past two years and resides around Haig Road.

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