sg national museum

supposedly to be out with aisyah, iqah and zaf - but eventually it's down to me and aisyah!
nevertheless, the day was filled with variety of activities as we decided to hop down to the national museum.

i am definitely all hyped up for my first ever visit to the new museum - last i recalled it wasn't at Stamford Road.

i remember that it was near padang area tho. oorrr maybe it was another museum
hmm don't mind my poor recollection of my primary school days... all i know was that yesterday was my first ever visit to the museum located at the Stamford Road




the moment we entered, we were unsure of how the whole museum thing go about....but we braved it
looked around like tourists and then found ourselves asking the receptionist pertaining a gallery of the costumier, Christian Lacroix,  that was on a huge poster, right by the reception.
me: can you tell me who is this Christian err - guy? (can't pronounce Lacroix)
receptionist: (knowing i cant pronounce) oh it's le kwa... le kwa.
then all three of us laughed out loud.

oh then we asked how much is the entry of the gallery.
she asked if we were students, and which school.
when we said Republic Poly, she straight away gave us pamphlets and told us that all the galleries in the museum is free as my school is a member.
so yey for being an RPian, in fact, yey for being a student too!

btw, there are two temporary galleries showcasing the works of Christian Lacroix and Verner Panton.
the former being a costumier and latter a interior designer.

i love love verner panton's works, and the principles he made use of to invade the limitation that separates the space within a room, it was marvelous i tell you.
it not only become a bold statement on how he made his designs of furniture and textiles and wall decor, but he created a whole new concept, born out of making use of differentiation.
(view his collection online at www.vernerpanton.com)
** however you may find the lacking in photos of verner panton's work cos aisyah's storage died down on us.

christian lacroix's works are impressive to me, the colors and the age of his design speaks to me like as if i was part of the age he tries to depict with his costumes.
fantastic use of colors and the gallery design was rather alluring. the playful contrast of red and black, and eventually the use of projectors on huge curtained wall was truly food for the eyes. however, i guess i wasn't much into the whole costume designing that it didnt ignite such excitement i felt in verner panton gallery.



okay so we didn't just spend the whole day at these two galleries. we went to ALL the galleries.
what was the nicest? of course the gallery of singapore history. a lot of artefacts and there was this 180 degrees tv device where we watched and learned about the different rulers of singapore.
it was great. and what was super about the gallery was that each gallery goer has given a Companion.






sucha a handsome and helpful piece of device. that enables the listener to playback or to skip boring parts of the 'tour'. the companion i say is a great help for both the museum and the gallery goer. it cuts the boredom of tour guides, talking on and on about ALL the things in the gallery.

but of course, in certain situations, a tour guide would have been helpful.






look at this:



thank goodness for technology.

left: hair dryer right:photo retoucher (think of it as photo editor)

again, thank goodness for technology...

the hairdryer might be tolerable, but the photo retoucher??? can't imagine how long will a few seconds of image editing will take on that thing.

and guess what i found out something i really dont know:
there was a sultanah of johore...




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