After a good rest from the blistering heat and yummy lunch at the air-conditioned Kopitiam we continued our journey to my all time haunt the..
SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM!!! Yayyyy.
In fact, on this trail, we have been visiting places I had passed daily on my way to school during my 3 years in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). Really miss this place so much. Coming back this round not as an art student (where I did my outdoor drawings, paintings and
photography) but with the lens of a History student gave me greater insight to the historical background and significance of these places which have very much grown to be a special part of me.
The Singapore Art Museum
(SAM) is always the place either to get my Art assignments done or for my
leisurely Art escape especially since it is now free for all Singaporeans. :D (HOORAY!)
In the past, I had an inkling that Singapore Art Museum as some old preserved school but never knew its exact name or history. After doing some research to be the 'tour guide' for this section of the trip, I went back to SAM with new perspective-another dimension of the Art Museum that was totally new to me- imagining how it would be like then with classrooms filled with school-children, lining up at the concourse, attending mass in the chapel, shuffling along the corridors to and from class- a different light to the SAM I was accustomed to: a building that housed art work.
My fellow companions were really excited (I hope I didn't let them
down) that an art person was going to bring them around and so was I!
Lets begin our journey into SAM!
