Laid out in a tall glass cabinet and exhibited for the first time are more than 200 items excavated in the 1960s from a grave for victims of Operation Sook Ching. Photo: The Straits Times/Asia News Network
A tank has appeared at the entrance of the National Museum of Singapore.
The decommissioned AMX13-SM1 vehicle, on loan from the Army Museum, is a teaser for the new exhibition Dislocations: Memory & Meaning Of The Fall Of Singapore, 1942. The exhibition (which runs until May 29) commemorates the 80th anniversary of the historic event. The British surrendered Singapore to the Japanese on Feb 15, 1942.
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Dislocations: Memory & Meaning Of The Fall Of Singapore, 1942
Laid out in a tall glass cabinet and exhibited for the first time are more than 200 items excavated in the 1960s from a grave for victims of Operation Sook Ching. Photo: The Straits Times/Asia News Network
A historic Singapore Armed Forces tank on display at the National Museum lawn in Singapore. Photo: The Straits Times/Asia News Network
Reproductions of six paintings, three by Japanese artists and three by Australians, hang from the ceiling in this display. Photo: The Straits Times/Asia News Network
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