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International Museum Day 2007

The interNational Museum day starts today! For 10 days (’til May 27), there will be more than 80 activities and events spread over 24 museums in Singapore!

Event: International Museum Day 2007
Date: May 18-27, 2007 (10 days)
Venue: 24 museums in Singapore

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Personally, I love museums and art galleries. I visited 4 of them (civil defence heritage gallery, Singapore Philatelic Museum, Singapore art museum, museum of Shanghai toys) during the interNational Museum day last year. Boy, that was one eye-opening experience!

I mean, you would think that Singapore, being such a small country and a relatively young nation, there wouldn’t be anything particularly interesting or new that you haven’t known of. But after visiting the four museums last year, I learned so much! Read more about my enriching experience!

Currently, I am also a friend of yesterday.sg, a local website set up by enthusiasts who blog about Singapore heritage and culture. I have contributed a few posts over there, and I think that the website would be a good read for people that are interested in local museums!

Since I started working, I haven’t had time to visit as many museums or galleries as I’d like. Other than gushing at the adorable kitty paintings in catmasutra, watching the remarkable kurt wenner draw live at the National Museum, and more recently, exploring the little known HDB gallery at my current workplace, I simply stopped visiting museums altogether!

The interNational Museum day would be a good time to start visiting again. Read walter’s post for more on what you can see, hear, taste, feel or do during the next 10 days! I’m going to make it a point to check out a few museums and galleries. If anyone’s keen to join me, drop me a note! I promise to be nice.

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Veron Ang is the Founder and Chief Editor of Sparklette, a Singapore restaurants guide, lifestyle and travel blog. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore and runs a web design firm at Sparklette Studio. To get in touch, head on over to the contact page or follow @Sparklette and @VeronSG on Twitter.

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Roy Leng
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Your blog sure has sparked a great interest among the yuppies, especially on the popular topic about dining in Singapore. I’m also currently working in Toa Payoh HDB Hub, and I hope you could maybe, do a recommendation of great food in the heartlanders area, starting from Toa Payoh (grin).
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Posted May 18, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Veron
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Hello fellow colleague, if you do a search for “Toa Payoh” on my blog, you’d be able to find my food reviews of places in Toa Payoh!
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Posted May 18, 2007 at 7:17 pm
modcentric
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wow! 4 museums in one day is an amazing feat!! i’m a museum geek too but i doubt my concentration can last 4 museums. =) i’m going on the mint museum of toys tour and either the SAM tour or architecture talk (both same timing) next fri. D.I.Y. Art looks interesting too…
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Posted May 18, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Veron
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Yay! We don’t have enough museum geeks these days. To be honest I have yet to check out the IMD 2007 events. Would try to cram as many as I can into my schedule!
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Posted May 18, 2007 at 10:19 pm
amy
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Hi Modcentric! I suggest you go for the SAM tour as the architectural tour will be repeated after IMD.
Sparklette: Thanks for blogging about IMD. Appreciate it! :D
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Posted May 19, 2007 at 1:50 am
Veron
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You’re most welcome!
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Posted May 19, 2007 at 10:40 am
Jopz
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I really want to go to that all museum in Singapore..
I have heard that MINT Museum of Toys has a great toy collection
( http://www.tips7.net/T10_Nostalgia-in-MINT-Museum-of-Toys/ ), share your memory please :D
thanks,
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Posted September 11, 2007 at 10:39 am