An Old New World: Digital Edition

This virtual exhibition offers two modes of navigation – guided and self-exploratory. In the former, you will be taken on a specially curated exploration of featured artefacts along the themes of "Knowledge and Power" and "Seeing the Indigenous". Curators Daniel Tham and Iskander Mydin provide the narration. You can view the transcript by clicking the button on the bottom right-hand side of the screen. Alternatively, you can navigate the galleries at your own pace via the self-exploratory mode.

The educator’s commentary for lower secondary students will be added at a later stage. Featuring artefact highlights, the commentary complements the museum’s educational resource An Old New World: Investigating Singapore’s History from Pre-Colonial to the Present, released earlier in conjunction with the physical exhibition for students to delve deeper into pre-colonial Singapore as they conduct their historical investigation of that period.