Peranakan Museum

Paid a visit to the Peranakan Museum while bringing my KL friends around during one of my off days and boy, it was pretty interesting, more so if you're one of the millions of "Little Nonya" fans (I'm not).

Quite a fair bit of images warning...


The museum is divided into several galleries, each depicting a part of the life journey of a peranakan, from birth till death.


A hanging depiction that's very huge hovers above us as we enter the doors.


A peranakan fashioned settee for visitors to rest their legs at the reception area.

We entered the first gallery on the ground floor and was greeted by a video clip, with several peranakan portraits lining the sides of the wall and a few artefacts in the middle of the room, each telling its own history.


A very dedicate/elaborate and detailed piece of embroidery work.


Something to cover the food from flies?



We didn't really follow the map and just hopped into the next nearest gallery, which showcases the various aspects of a peranakan wedding.






Head gears and jewelleries.












The offerings and auspicious symbols that each side of the wedding couple must prepare.




The wedding procession, which is in a gallery of its own. Kinda creepy.


The typical peranakan living room.


The altar piece.


With again, elaborate embroidery threads decorating one end of the altar.






They have these experience boxes for visitors with itchy fingers to touch the artefacts.




Bed room? Or probably some furnitures on display.


Washing basin




Beaded purse that's oh-so-classic!


Baby booties!~


And baby clothings. Looks kinda big?


The typical doorway of a peranakan house.


Oh. The Tans!


Another creepy area.


Spittoons with again, elaborative decorations.








"I'm not feeling very well today. Sorry for the inconvenience caused."






Mealtimes in a peranakan family is a big scale affair. Everyone will gather around the dining table and just look at the amount of utensils involved.




The olden times kitchen complete with a charcoal stove.














The old times storybooks.




Another experience zone




The massive set up for a ceremony.


And these are some very very tiny brooches.. or parts of a headdress... or belt.. or.. or...


Kuji!!!




New Testament in.. Malay!


The season exhibition during that time was Ramayana Revisited.

Despite knowing nuts about the great tale of Ramayana, the exhibits were arranged such a way to depict the story and paragraphs were located along the way to guide visitors thru.






This actually looks kinda cute.






A closeup on the carvings.




Very amazing how detailed the crowns are.












Shadow Play. Is the real name wayang??


The colored puppets.


Hmm.. makes an interesting picture eh?


An immortalised stray cat



The Peranakan Museum is a rather interesting museum even for Singaporeans to visit and learn about the peranakan culture. Entrance is only S$6 each if I'm not wrong.

Hmm.. Maybe we should have some Teochew museums la, Hokkien museum la, kinda stuff. Would be very interesting for the younger folks to learn about their origins (or the origins of their great grandfathers per say..)!

We made a short short visit to RWS next, about to try our luck at getting some tickets into USS. Internet's fully sold out!




They actually do have tickets available on site but since its DRIZZLING, we decided not to spend $60+ (or was it 70?) each for maybe 2 hours before it turns dark and with probable rides closed due to the rain.


Yips, the closest we got to USS. From the gates...


The typical tourist shot.