The National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum in conjunction with auction house Christie’s is hosting a talk on The Tang Dynasty Cargo from Belitong (Indonesia) on 4 June 2007. [...]
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A book review on the latest book about the Flores Hominid, also nicknamed the Hobbit, written by Mike Morwood, one of the archaeologists who discovered the remarkable find in 2003. [...] New Southeast Asian archaeology-related books from Select Books, added in May 2007. Other books also available in the bookstore. [...] RSI’s series Discovering Singapore, features an interview with Singaporean archaeologist Lim Chen Sian, about what archaeologists do, and what’s there to find in Singapore. [...] Keeping with the International Museum Day season, the museums of Brunei have launched an exhibition showcasing the best of their collections. [...] While we’re on the subject of museums and collections, museum professionals in Vietnam were discussing how to better catalogue their collection of over 200,000 artefacts and documents, with the aim of building a user-oriented classification system. [...] In conjunction with this year’s International Museum Day, the National Heritage Board of Singapore have launched SGCool, an online repository of the collections stored in the National Museum of Singapore, the Asian Civilisations Museum and the Singapore Art Museum. [...] We saw in the first installment of The Many Places of Singapura that the ‘Lion City’ (Singha-Pura) first existed in central Vietnam from the 4th to 9th century. In this installment, we’ll talk about two other “potential” places. [...] A travel piece on the My Son Sanctuary in central Vietnam, once the spiritual centre of the Champa kingdom. [...] PM is an afternoon radio news show in Australia. I think the title says it all: it’s alarming to learn that such pieces of Angkor Wat were on eBay for sale. It’s also interesting to note that the seller is based in Thailand and the goods are in Singapore – the two countries in SEA which have not been signatory to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. [...] |
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