Learning Journey to Singapore Museum

On the 6th April, our class had a excursion to the Signapore National Museum. After taking our lunch,we boarded the school bus and headed to the museum. As soon as we reached the museum,we alighted from the bus and headed to the entrance of the winding staircase (inclined plane). The whole class, including the parents of Darren Chia and Victoria and our form teacher, Mrs Azhar.

This is the first fime I had been to the museum, so I was very excited. The museum was beautifully construted. At the entrance, the museum curator handed us a gizmo called The Companion. The Companion is a multimedia handheld device specially designed to guide you around the Singapore History Gallery. Each Companion comprise of an LCD display, a pair of earphones and a keypad which enables you to enjoy audio, visual and textual content which complement the National Museum's physical collection of artefacts. We were supposed to look at the numbers on the floor in each exhibits and press the number on the Companion so it could give us more information on it. You can read descriptions, listen to expert opinion and watch videos related to these artefacts by simply punching in the zone code you are in (located on the floor), followed by the numbers next to the artefacts.

We started to explore the museum with our new gizmo, starting with the Singapore History Gallary. One of the largest exhibits there was about the fall and rise of Singapore. The Second World War during the Japanese occupation. We spent about one hour there and returned The Companion to the reception.

Then we went to the Singapore Living Galleries - Film & Wayang. They were showing a Malay horror movie there. One of my classmates tried to act like the main character and he acted just like him.

We had a class photo taken before we left the museum. I find that the Singapore Museum is a great museum that remind us of our past and a very informative especially with The Companion. I would like to share this experience with my parents and hope they will bring me back for a revisit.

Here is a picture that I took during the visit. Hope you'll like it.