Museum/Gallery Visit

  National Museum of Singapore 

(They had run out of the English pamphlets) 

I hadn't been to this museum in quite a while, so it was nice to go back and see it.

 1. This was really cool. I've always been really interested in vintage packaging designs - I even have a few old coke bottles that I found at a thrift store. But these were from the 1950s and they were brands I had never even heard of like Green Spot and Framroz. And the coffee cups were so tiny and cute and those had brands that I recognized like Milo and Ovaltine.

2. This bicycle is so cute, it's in my favorite shade of green. It reminds me of the carts they use to sell ice cream nowadays but this one is from the 1960s and they used it to sell little cake pastries at hawker centers. It's pretty crazy to see how some vendors really haven't abondoned this particular form of selling goods. I think it really adds to the culture of Singapore.

3. They also had this area where you could smell different spices. I love when museums add interactive sections in their exhibit because it makes it more interesting. And in this case you could smell them and get instructions telling you how to use them. Pretty cool. 

4. These tools looked like they were used in ancient times when they were only being used like fourty to fifty years ago. It's so incredible to see how some items have been used for so long and remained unchanged. Kinda like the bicycle cart (mentioned in #2) used to sell stuff here in Singapore.