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Focuses more on contemporary art practices.

Opened in 1996 the Singapore art museam has built up one of the more important collections of contemporary art from the region.

The exhibitions change every few months and feature a wide range of art forms from paintings to sculptures.

Sam also regularly collaborated with leading international museums to present shows covering both local and international art practices as well as cutting edge art expressions

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Known as the nations oldest museam, it seeks to inspire with stories of Singapore and the world.

It first opened in 1887 in stamford road as the Raffles Library and Museam.

Fun thing to note
To celebrate the lunar new year, the museam will  be offering free admission to all from 15-18 February this year.

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Shanghai book company

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Bras brasah means wet rice in Malay.

In the early days, boats carrying sacks of rice would unload people would dry them along the banks of sungi brass brasah.

The rice would always get wet and hence they named the place brass Basah.

An interesting fact is that one of Singapore’s oldest bookstores “ Shanghai book company” was previously housed here around 1800-1925. It was one of the big 4 pre-war Chinese book stores in Singapore.

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Originated from the South Sulawesi in Indonesia, the Bugis people were known for their seafaring and warring skills.

The Bugis merchants settled in Singapore at around 1819. They occupied an area that extended from Kampong Glam to the mouth of Rochor river.

To encourage them to settle down in Singapore, Stamford rafflesa laid out a Bugis town!

Which is pretty much around the location of Bugis you see now.

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Designed by WOHA and opened to the public in 2009 under the name 'Iluma'.

The building was bought by CapitaMall in 2011 and renamed to its current name during the following year (2012), Bugis +.

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This temple was the first temple to provide English divination slips for English devotees and tourists! (1990)

The temple is the most crowded, during the eve of Chinese New Year, where many devotees would like up early to pray for an auspicious start of the year. ( temple opens 24/7 on that day too)