Museum
National Gallery Singapore
Singapore 178957
Former colonial courthouse and seat of government turned into Southeast Asia's largest art museum.
This guide to the National Gallery Singapore follows this building through two turning points in its former life as City Hall: the 1945 surrender of Japanese forces to Admiral Mountbatten, and Lee Kuan Yew's tearful 1965 independence proclamation down the hall. It then traces how, in 2015, this building and the neighboring Supreme Court were merged into a single gallery of modern Southeast Asian art. The old cabinet chamber is now just one more room along the visit.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.