Living Under the Crescent Moon

Yes, I visited the National Museum of Singapore today, and many other historical sites with my father. I went to this exhibition named Under the Crescent Moon, here's the website http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/crescent_moon/. It is an interesting exhibition, if not I wouldn't be blogging about it, with lots of artefacts and some art installation.

The exposition aims to reveal more about the arab culture, the focus was on the domestic aspect. You get to see many pictures of their houses, old and new, you'll be impressed by their architecture characteristics, their intention to preserve their heritage of building style. The new generation of arab houses are like those square houses you see in movies(but nicer of course) with a garage beside. O.o

There was a also an installation art piece, where you get to climb onto a small bridge which cannot support more than 12 people. They play clips of war, wreck, destruction and violence. You may feel a-bit heavy hearted after seeing that. But I don't know, the perception of art varies from person to person.

It has further enforced my idea of religion differences between people are quite scary, and often lead to destructive actions. And not sorting out the differences properly may result in very grave misunderstanding, which makes people do meaningless but wretched things. Therefore I have this principle of not having any religion. It is the best way to live, I think.

The whole thing should not take you more than 2 hours.

The last thing is, you need not pay to go in. But you may need some money for parking. :)
Until 21 May 2007, 10am-6pm daily. Remember, its the National Museum of Sinagpore, not art museum or anything else.