Changing with the Times

In a world that has experienced drastic changes in this pandemic, how is our experience with time affected? This is the question posed by the panelists at the Critical Conversations discussion in the lead-up to NUS Arts Festival 2021: A Question of Time.

In Conversation with Hsu Fang-Tze, curator of Wishful Images

NUS Museum’s upcoming exhibition titled Wishful Images: When Microhistories Take Form reconsiders the historical conjuncture between two less discussed historical narratives echoing the Lusaka Conference of the Non-Alignment Movement of the Cold War and Koza Riots of Okinawa, which both happened fifty years ago.

On Being a Docent at the NUS Baba House: Volunteering at a Heritage Home

Docents are volunteer guides who are instrumental to the activities at the NUS Baba House, leading regular heritage tours as well as co-creating and hosting educational visits with groups of all ages. This interview with docent Dawn Marie Lee reveals more about the work of such volunteers in museum education.

Reading the NUS Museum and Baba House

The NUS Museum and NUS Baba House collections can be explored from their publications as well. This article introduces the publications available and invites readers to view the full collections online.

The two ‘C’s of the NUS Museum

Mary Ann Lim, Outreach Executive at the NUS Museum shares what determines the collections strategy at our Museum, and as importantly the hard work that goes behind each and every artefact to ensure that they are conserved for generations after to enjoy.

What takes place at our Module Collaborations at the Museum?

Many of our academic colleagues have leveraged the exhibits at both the NUS Museum and Baba House to augment their curriculum; this is the basis of a ‘module collaboration’. Many, professors and students alike, testify to how this has added an interesting facet to their module. To enquire about creating a module collaboration for your classroom, please do contact the NUS Museum team.

Reviewing the Dériver/Arrivée film series

Dériver / Arrivée: A Century of Travel in French Cinema featured four films that dealt with the thematics of travel and travelling, framed by Malabou and Derrida’s analysis of the voyage and the attendant notions of dériver and arrivée (drift / derivation and arrival).

Agency in art making and art curation

In NUS Museum’s fourth and final exhibition drawn from the collection, focus is shifted once again. Wartime Artists of Vietnam specifically engages with concept of an artist’s agency; how they are pulled in multiple directions as war artists and how they reflect the war experience through art.

Cross-cultural art

Gilles Massot is a multidisciplinary artist and academic whose works are based on the idea of “the space between things” with the aim of establishing links and deciphering the narratives existing between disciplines, people, occurrences and parts of the world.