Learning Journey to the National Museum

Yay! It's learning tapestry again! This time, our trip was to the national museum. We went by bus. I partnered my friend Dana, while Rachel partnered Sueann. We left at somewhere

around 9.30 a.m. Dana and I sat near the front of the bus and just behind Rachel and Sueann.

When I first saw the museum, there was only 1 thought in my head -- it was HUGE! Dana agreed with me.

After we had gotten down from the bus, we lined up with our partners. First, we visited the

film and wayang gallery. It was quite dark inside. we watched a bit of a black-and-white

movie until Mrs Soon my form teacher called us over to the back of the stage where she

showed us an old gramophone. Then we moved on to the wayang kulit section of the gallery. It

had puppets used for the shows and a stage. We also saw some costumes for people on display.

Next, we entered the fashion gallery. We had to fill up one of our worksheets here. My favourite part of this gallery was its back room. There were lengths of cloths to feel and two had a magnifying glass attached to them. And in display cases, there were old thimbles, a basket full

of things needed for sewing and many, many more!

After that, we visited the food gallery. Again, we had to fill up another worksheet. Inside were displays of different types of food brought to Singapore by each race. My favourite part of this room was the place with all the jars and spices. We could smell a few of the spices showed there.

There was also an old ice shaver.

Next, we moved on to the photography gallery. I did not like it as much as the others. There were some drawers in the wall where when you pulled it out, there were pictures inside.

Finally, we moved on to the history gallery. We were each given an audio guide and an earpiece.

This was my favorite part of the whole museum. It was very dark and my earpieces kept on dropping off. I saw many very interesting exhibits such as: Major William Farquhar's collection of drawings, a rickshaw, swords and maybe a hundred more!

I was very disappointed when we had to leave, as I wanted to explore some more.

I would recommend everyone to go to this museum and I hope to come here again.