JEDIT Outing - The National Museum!

Have you been to the National Museum lately? I just went there on Tan Long's recommendation who was in turn goaded by 安娣 to go. I always thought it would be nice to visit the Museum after so long, contrary to Tan Long's belief that everyone would be turned off once they hear the word "museum", and I'm glad I went!

Turns out our Museum has become pretty high tech. We were lucky too that there was some a Greek Lourve exhibit there. Wahh.. It's the first time I've actually seen Greek sculptures, I think. Imagine somewhile that is a few thousand years old just in front of you. Just makes me feel dwarfed.

The main purpose of our visit was actually to see the History of Singapore exhibit which Tan Long is so enthralled about. He promised that it would be something to entertain us for the whole day for just $5. So I thought, "okae, let's see what's so great about this".

It appears that our dear Museum is quite the technologically advanced gallery. When we first entered the exhibit, we were handed headphones and a Companion. As we approached the bridge that was to begin our journey, we were prompted to press 1 on the Companion. What follows is a step by step visual and aural experience to bring us through each of the showcase.

I was personally quite amazed by the gigantic video right at the start. I was thinking how the hell they managed to edit it so that it plays on so many screens both simultaneously and independently?! It must have been tough.

What followed that was a comprehensive collection that brought us through the different stages of the History of Singapore. After spending the whole morning there (until 2pm), we only managed to get up to the Japanese Invasion of Singapore. The exhibit is just too immense!

I would really recommend you to go take a look at it. The National Museum is just located between YMCA and SMU. The nearest MRT is Dhoby Ghaut MRT. Take the exit of Atrium @ Orchard and walk there.

It would be quite interesting if you explored other parts of the Museum too. They are currently having quite a few interesting exhibits. Just go to their website to take a look eh? I found their intro video quite interesting too. Hahas.

PS: I realised that this is one of our rare solely JEDIT outing!! JEDIT stands, of course, for Jun Yuan, Enqing, Dezhi, Ivan and Tan Long. Wow. Hahas. Bet you guys didn't realise! In case you are curious, we are grouped together because we all have no significant others unlike Chow who has 8 or more girlfriends already, and Rich who has a mysterious relationship with a mysterious someone!