Day at the Museum
A few Sundays ago was International Museum Day which means Open House aka FREE entry to the various museums in Singapore !! Woohoo! So Joe and I went to visit the Singapore National Museum. To my surprise, Joe has NEVER gone to the Museum at all, not even when he was younger! He must have been on sick leave when his class had an excursion to the Museum!
One of two special exhibits I really wanted to catch was Christian Lacroix the Costumier. He is a famous fashion designer but also well-known for his stage costumes for various operas, theatre shows and ballets. The costumes were rich and lavish but maybe cos it was crowded with visitors, the lighting a bit dim for me and I wasn’t familiar with the stage performances he designed these costumes for, I din really enjoy it much.
But I really liked the Verner Panton one a lot more! He is the designer for the iconic Panton chair and they had the chair in various colours scattered throughout the hall for free sitting and it was so comfy! It’s the first chair that’s molded out of a single piece of plastic and literally “hugs” your body and legs!
The chair was so comfortable Joe fell asleep sitting on it!
Panton was really a revolutionary furniture designer, with a bold use of colours and re-imagined shapes.
The red cushiony thing on the right is some kind of sofa!
These are dubbed “The Flying Chairs”!
More interesting seating! Pardon the dark pics!
Very retro yah?
We also checked out the Singapore Living Galleries which were in 4 rooms, comprising Fashion, Film & Wayang, Food, and Photography.
Here’s my justification to Dear who’s always saying I buy too many accessories! Oh hey where was the male clothing? I want to see the policemen’s shorts!
The top two pictures show something my mum-in-law is very familiar with! A puppet stage and puppets! She does puppet shows! Cool right?
I remember the Satay Man! Do you remember the Satay Man song we used to sing? And Satay Club where the Esplanade now stands?
We had a fun time without spending a cent! Hee!
Night at the Museum
We caught the 1st Night at the Museum movie and enjoyed it a lot. It was just a fun and brainless movie to chill to. So when Part 2 came out, we wanted to watch it too. This time round, it’s more of the same jokes but now that the movie was set at the Smithsonian, paintings, sculptures, airplanes, and rockets came to life too! I loved the live paintings/photographs! Just imagine your favourite photograph taken eons ago. Now it comes alive, such that you can “go into” the photograph and relive that moment in time when it was taken! Cool right? Wish museums could be this interactive and the exhibits can “come alive” literally!
I liked both movies too cos I have been to both museums before when I went to US so it brings back lots of memories! See below for some photos I took at the actual Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian! If you have watched the movies, do the following exhibits look familiar?
Remember the airplanes?
Abraham Lincoln came alive in the movie!
I din manage to take a photo of the front facade of the American Museum of Natural History where the first movie was set, just the side entrance.
T-Rex! Grrrrr…………….!
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