If exploring community and culture while on vacation appeals to you, then the Paranakan Museum is a place you must explore. A truly enthralling cultural experience awaits you at this much cherished museum. Built in the year 1912 this museum houses a much priced collection of Peranakan objects, with galleries on three floors dedicated to this supreme community. It really is an all comprising cultural experience with the taste of their traditions and visual arts so blatantly exposed. This museum also functions as a constituent of the Asian Civilisation Museum under the National Heritage Board.
Drawn by commerce and trade many foreign traders opted to settle down in the regions they visited, marrying local women and assimilating to the local culture. Thus the coinage of the term ‘Peranakan’ becomes far clearer as it stands for ‘locally born’ in Malay. The Peranakans encompasses traders of Chinese, South Indian and Indian- Muslim descendents whose cultural heritage could be traced back to the Chinese and Indian traders who migrated to the busy ports of Penang, Singapore. Thus both linguistically and culturally the Paranakan culture is uniquely hybrid and is part of Singapore’s living tradition.
Thus the Paranakan Museum houses a tasteful and a most distinctive collection of artefacts and wares of the Paranakans. This museum is discerningly organized into galleries ranging from their origins to religion and public life. This large collection brings the lifestyle and different aspects of this great community to life. It is estimated that this museum draws around 112,000 visitors each year.
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Jayani Senanayake is a writer who dabbles in travel and all things exotic. Under the pseudonym of Caliope Sage, she writes of the allures that must simply be discovered. Google+
