Instagram Interludes

Some time back I took BB & GG to the Singapore National Museum as they have been studying Singapore’s history for their History lessons in school. These below are some pictures I took there….


A Rickshaw

An old telephone from the 1920s

 

 

A clothes washing basin from the time of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore

 

 

An art installation at the lobby of the museum made up of pots and pans

 

Instagram Interludes

Some old maps and prints from the National Museum Singapore

 

An old map – Singapore is marked with the red dot towards the bottom to the left

 

Another old map print of Asia 

 

img_0011-1

This one is the island of Singapore, probably around the late 1800s, early 1900s

 

A print of the natives of Singapore, around the time Raffles arrived

 

img_0007

Possibly a fort at the time the British East India company bought the island from the Sultan of Johor