Friday, April 03, 2015

In Memoriam: Lee Kuan Yew Exhibition

Fresh queuing opportunity! The National Museum was running an exhibition In Memoriam: Lee Kuan Yew until 26 April. Kiasu Singaporean shall not miss it!

The exhibition includes personal items used by Mr Lee such as a barrister wig he wore for his admission to the Bar and a Rolex watch that the Singapore Union of Postal and Telecommunications Workers gave to him after he successfully represented it in arbitration proceedings over a wage dispute.

Mr Lee's famous red box - where he kept his working documents - was also on display.

Brother and I decided to go take a look. I have not heard anything about a priority queue, but let's find out.

O wow. The queue.

We saw prams in queue too. Means no priority? How could they? :(

Bumped into my university friend, J! Haven't seen her since we graduated! She came with her family.

Was going to leave when I saw the security guard showing another wheelchair in. So 赚到 again. We were led through a side entrance which required scanning a staff card, to the lift, then we were left to queue at the last queue upstairs. Alamak still gotta queue XD Well, at least we got to skip 2 queues, the one outside and one inside downstairs. The upstairs queue took about 30 min. Outside is 2 hours, I heard.

The queue was so long because people were allowed to view the personal items in small batches. This way, there was no crowding over the exhibits and everybody could see.

The queue at downstairs, inside

All the artefacts you see in the current exhibition will be retained and curated in the soon-to-be revamped permanent galleries of the Museum," he added. The permanent Galleries of the National Museum will be opened around Aug/Sept 2015.

So, mai kan jiong lah.

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