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National Gallery Singapore

National Gallery Singapore opened in 2015 in two restored national monuments — the former Supreme Court and City Hall — joined by a sculptural metal-and-glass canopy. It was created to give Singapore and the wider Southeast Asian region a major museum dedicated to their own art history. The gallery holds one of the world's most significant public collections of modern Southeast Asian art and presents it alongside an active contemporary program, situating regional practice within global narratives. Its restoration of historically charged civic buildings turns sites of colonial and national history into spaces for art. Its relevance lies in asserting Southeast Asia as a distinct and consequential art-historical region, and in its role as a cultural anchor for the area.

The National Museum of Singapore is a public museum dedicated to Singaporean art, culture and history. Located within the country's Civic District at the Downtown Core area, it is the oldest museum in the country, with its history dating back to when it was first established in 1849, starting out as a section of a library at the Singapore Institution as the Raffles Library and Museum. Source: Wikipedia