Ancient Civilisations Museum (Empress Place)
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| A picture of the first year History students with the beautiful museum in the background before we went in there. |
Interesting Fact: The ACM along the Singapore River was not the first venue though it had begun its building before it opened at Armenian Street in 1997.
On 21 April 1997, Ancient Civilisations Museum (ACM) opened in the former Tao Nan School Building on Armenian Street, with then Deputy PM Lee Hsien Loong attending the opening ceremony. With the mission to foster understanding of the diverse heritage cultures of Singapore, their interconnections, and their connections with the world by exploring Asia’s artistic heritage, the museum had included ten galleries for ethnological materials collected in Southeast Asia – essentially examples of the crafts, tools, weapons, utensils, and costume of the Malay and other indigenous Southeast Asian cultures as well as objects from the colonial Raffles Library and Museum, Chinese objects and other unique exhibitions. Special exhibitions bring magnificent objects from around the world to our Singapore audience, an example of a special exhibition would be the Peranakan display that was popular then.
In 2003, the ACM had finally opened a second venue at the historic Empress Place Building, a neoclassical-style building completed in 1867 along the Singapore River that was used to house colonial for over a hundred years in the late 19th to the early 20th century. It served as the colonial government offices and housed numerous government departments, from customs to the legislative council and until the 1980s, the Immigration Department. It also served as the Empress Place Museum from 1989 to 1995. It took 5 years to convert this building into the ACM, a state-of-the-art museum, since the beginning of renovations in 1997 to design it. In the third-quarter of 2014, the ACM has undergone an extensive renovation, injecting a fresh and modern element into the building of classic architecture and transforming it into a new exhibition space for important artefacts that we are familiar today.
In 2003, the ACM had finally opened a second venue at the historic Empress Place Building, a neoclassical-style building completed in 1867 along the Singapore River that was used to house colonial for over a hundred years in the late 19th to the early 20th century. It served as the colonial government offices and housed numerous government departments, from customs to the legislative council and until the 1980s, the Immigration Department. It also served as the Empress Place Museum from 1989 to 1995. It took 5 years to convert this building into the ACM, a state-of-the-art museum, since the beginning of renovations in 1997 to design it. In the third-quarter of 2014, the ACM has undergone an extensive renovation, injecting a fresh and modern element into the building of classic architecture and transforming it into a new exhibition space for important artefacts that we are familiar today.
Did you know?
At the end of 2005, the Armenian Street ACM building closed and the Peranakan Museum, that was still under the authority of ACM, opened on 25 April 2008 after the Peranakan displays were moved to the brand-new Peranakan Museum, exploring the culture and links of communities in Southeast Asia (SEA), more specifically the former Straits Settlements of Singapore, Malacca, and Penang.
References
https://www.todayonline.com/entertainment/arts/asian-civilisations-museum-undergo-extensive-renovations
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