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It's the month of Peranakan and to publicize some of the upcoming events like "The Pera nakan Museum’s Open House" on 5-6 Dec and "The Peranakan Festival 2009", I, as a blogger get to roam the museum premises with my camera, recording my impressions of Peranakan culture during a short 2 hours visit.
It's quite easy to find even if you do not have any vehicles because it's just a 10 minutes walk from City Hall MRT station. It's just next to the Substation if you've watched a film there before.
Here I am standing right outside the Peranakan Museum.
The Museum is opened daily and only Friday is opened till 9pm which is the latest.
It's a great place for the young and the old ~ Do I look like part of the family too? Heehee.
Very nice backdrop.
They are doing the stitching. Very beautiful indeed.
ORIGIN
The faces of the Peranakan community. The gallery is a mosaic of Peranakans past and present. Among them are descendants of Singapore's Peranakan Chinese, Jawi Peranakan and Chitty Melaka communities. Photographer for these contemporary portraits was Geoff Ang.
Me with the exhibits.
WEDDING
In the Peranakan Wedding, the wedding items are often in the lucky colours of red, pink, yellow, orange and gold. Like the Chinese, they also believed that good things come in pairs so many of the items comes in pairs and are often decorated with special motifs.
Some of the wedding items like the jewelleries etc.
These are the gifts from the bride's family to the bridegroom's family.
In tray 1, one could see the full set of jewellery and ang pow. This tray also represent the exchange of rings between the couple.
In tray 2, it contains a little part of the pork leg. It is to acknowledge that the bridegroom was the head of the family.
In tray 3, contains fruits and drinks usually sweet that represent a lasting and blissful marriage.
In tray 4, contains the garment and slippers usually sewn by the bride herself displaying her skill to the women of her new family.
This is the traditional layout of a typical Peranakan house. I'm standing in front of the big hall also known as Thia Besar. This is a room used to received important guests and also for special occasions. It also housed the altar of the guardian deity of the house.
The Sam Kai Altar refers to Heaven, Earth and Man.
NONYA
These three phones were pretty interesting, when you pick them up, you can hear a pre-recorded conversation of 3 different people. Cool.
The Sarong Kebaya. Nice right. I wish I could wear them.
RELIGION
Deity altar. Here is where the household members offers their daily prayers.
Please NOTE.
This is a creepy passageway that leads us to a coffin. Showing a typical funeral. No photography allowed in that area.
Some of the random photos we take inside the Museum.
At the end of the tour, we were given a goodie bag each. Thanks NIVEA for sponsoring.
This cat will end my post for the night~ Meow~ Sleepy. There's still alot more to explore there and some of the exhibits prohibits the use of camera so I couldn't take any. Overall, I felt that I really loves the Peranakan culture. It's colourful, beautiful and they makes tasty nonya kuehs.
For more details of the Peranakan Museum do visit their website at - http://www.peranakanmuseum.sg/home/home.asp
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