National Museum of Singapore

The National Museum of Singapore is a museum in Singapore.

The museum is the oldest museum in Singapore. The museum building was built in 1849. The history of the museum itself also goes back to the year 1849, when a part of the library of the Raffles Institution (Singapore Institution ) was established in the building. After several relocations of the museum was housed permanently in 1887 in the building at Stamford Road.

The museum is one of the four national museums in the country, the other three are the two museums of Asian Civilisations Museum at Empress Place Bulding and in the Old Tao Nan School and the Singapore Art Museum.

The focus of the museum is located in Singapore's history. 1965 was named the National Museum of Singapore Museum. For a brief period between 1993 and 2006 was the museum name Singapore History Museum. Between 2003 and the end of 2006, the museum was restored and re-opened on December 2, 2006.