Embark on an exciting POV adventure as we take you behind the scenes of our museum's restoration works! Uncover secrets and stories from over a century ago, embedded in the very architecture of this building.

Continue your adventure in person when the original Monument Building and its Grand Rotunda reopen to the public on 19 May 2025!

Image credits:

Plan Of Library And Museum, Singapore (Ground Plan); Laying the foundation stone of the Raffles Library and Museum; Photograph, Raffles Museum, 1938; A gallery in the Raffles Library and Museum; Rafflesia Arnoldi - Collection of the National Museum of Singapore, National Heritage Board

The library at the Raffles Library and Museum. Collection of the National Museum of Singapore, National Heritage Board, Gift of Sam Kai Faye

A painting of the nutmeg plant ('Booa Palla, Myristica moschata'). Collection of the National Museum of Singapore, National Heritage Board , Gift of Mr. G. K. Goh

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