Sarawak Museum Campus open to public in Sept 2020
via Borneo Post, 21 Feb 2019: Set to be the second-biggest museum in Southeast Asia.
Tag: museums
News reports and information about museums and museums studies related to Southeast Asian archaeology and cultural heritage. ICOM celebrates International Museum Day every year on May 18.
Revisiting Raffles exhibition reveals what an ignoramus Raffles really was
via SG Magazine, 07 Feb 2019: A review of the Raffles in Southeast Asia exhibition currently at the Asian Civilisations ...
Raffles in Southeast Asia: A multilayered exploration of the man, colonialism and re-looking our past
The bicentennary, Raffles, the discourse of (de)colonisation and rejection of the 'Big Man' myth all come together in this one ...
Visitor numbers for museums, heritage centres hit record high in Singapore
via Straits Times, 31 January 2019: 5.4 million visitors to national museums and heritage institutions in Singapore in 2018!
Culture Minister urges youth to visit Kingdom’s museums
via Khmer Times, 23 January 2019:
New exhibition seeks to revisit Raffles’ other facets
ia The Straits Times, 01 January 2019: Modern Singapore's founder, Sir Stamford Raffles, is the focus of a new exhibition ...
It’s Time for French Museums to Return Cambodian Artifacts
via The Diplomat, 13 Dec 2018: France recently returned artefacts to Benin. Why not Cambodia?
Asian Civilisations Museum to open 3 new galleries for Christian Art, Islamic Art, and Ancestors and Rituals
via Straits Times, 27 November 2018: New galleries in the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore.
All aboard for history
via The Nation, 26 November 2018: Bangkok's newest shopping mall features a floating museum focusing on trade and commerce in ...
Freer|Sackler Gallery Southeast Asia Collections
New web resource - the new Freer|Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian has a section devoted to Southeast Asian art.
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