Peranakan Museum Singapore

Name: Peranakan Museum Singapore
Address: Raffles Park, SG
Telephone: +6563327591
Price range: $
Rating: 4.5

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Peranakan Museum explores the cross-cultural art & culture of Peranakan communities in Southeast Asia
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26/08/2026

Explore immersive storytelling, vibrant installations, and creative performances inspired by rich traditions and imaginative worlds.

Don’t miss the last weekend of Peacock Power: Beauty and Symbolism Across Cultures. Enjoy free admission on 28 & 29 Aug, as well as free admission to our permanent galleries on 4 & 5 Sep, from 6 to 10pm. Last entry to the museum is at 9.30pm.

For more details, visit go.gov.sg/elsewhere

24/08/2026

🦚 Have you experienced the wonder of Peacock Power: Beauty & Symbolism Across Cultures yet?

Visit the exhibition before it closes 30 August, only at The Peranakan Museum.

🏺Featured objects:
Photograph, Penang, around 1920s, Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee, 2015-00935.

Kebaya with matching skirt, Steven Ong, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 2003, Gift of Mrs Evelyn Greaves (née Yeo) and granddaughter Mia Greaves, 2025-00369.

Beaded slippers, Singapore, 2003, Gift of Mrs Evelyn Greaves (née Yeo) and granddaughter Mia Greaves, 2025-00370.

Sari with green blouse, Bangalore, India, 2019, On loan from Merlin Pillay.

Wedding sari with matching blouse, India, Kanchipuram and Chennai, 1979, On loan from Merlin Pillay.

Peranakan wedding photograph, Malacca, early 20th century, 2017-00791.

Groom’s wedding jacket, Malacca, early or mid-20th century, 2011-01802.

Belt with buckle, Singapore or Straits Settlements, early 20th century, Gift of Mr Edmond Chin, 2015-01994.

Cheongsam, Singapore, late 1950s or 1960, Gift of David Abraham and John Abraham in memory of Mary Abraham, 2023-00119.

23/08/2026

Be transported to elsewhere – a world spun from myth and wonder – as the Peranakan Museum and Armenian Street transform after dark for Singapore Night Festival.

Explore immersive storytelling, vibrant installations, and creative performances inspired by rich traditions and imaginative worlds.

Dive into the vibrant world of the Arab Peranakans with activities and performances by Arab Network @ Singapore, held in conjunction with our Community Voices programme on 28 & 29 Aug.

Don’t miss the last weekend of Peacock Power: Beauty and Symbolism Across Cultures. Enjoy free admission on 28 & 29 Aug, as well as free admission to our permanent galleries on 4 & 5 Sep, from 6 to 10pm. Last entry to the museum is at 9.30pm.

For more details, visit go.gov.sg/elsewhere

06/08/2026

Visually extravagant and instantly recognisable, the peacock has occupied an unusually fluid position in Chinese art. Native to parts of southern China yet often associated with distant lands, it could signify imperial authority, religious protection, virtue, romantic tragedy, luxury, or vanity.

Following the peacock across two millennia of Chinese art, this talk traces the bird from early Chinese visual culture to the cosmopolitan courts of the Tang dynasty, and from its emergence as a major subject in bird-and-flower painting to its use in the decorative arts of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Rather than assigning the bird a single symbolic meaning, it reveals the peacock as a remarkably adaptable cultural image that artists and patrons reinterpreted over time.

This talk is organised in conjunction with Peacock Power: Beauty and Symbolism Across Cultures, on view at the Peranakan Museum until 30 August 2026.

Thursday, 20 August 2026, 7–8pm
Ixora Room (The Peranakan Museum)
THIS TALK IS FREE.
$10 refundable deposit is required.
Register here: https://20august2026.peatix.com/

Light refreshments will be served from 6pm at the basement foyer.

01/08/2026

💎 Be dazzled by our Jewellery gallery, which presents a glistening array of over 180 pieces across stages of life and occasions.

Singaporeans and Permanent Residents enjoy free year-round entry to the Peranakan Museum’s permanent galleries: plan your visit today!

Studio portrait of three nyonyas
Penang
Ca 1910s
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
2020-00098

Kerosang serong
Marks: 原金 (Yuan Jin); 祥益 (Xiang Yi)
Straits Settlements
Late 19th or early 20th century
National Museum of Singapore
GL-0022

30/07/2026

Explore a range of intricate embroidery and beadwork — creative expressions of Peranakan art and culture — at our Decorative Textiles gallery.

Singaporeans and Permanent Residents enjoy free year-round entry to the Peranakan Museum’s permanent galleries: plan your visit today!

17/07/2026

Explore a range of textiles in our batik gallery 🪡

Singaporeans and Permanent Residents enjoy free year-round entry to the Peranakan Museum’s permanent galleries: plan your visit today!

Sarong
M.P. Soediro
Cotton (drawn batik)
Java, Pekalongan
Around 1910
2011-02024

04/07/2026

🦚✨ From Daoist birthday banners and Christian prayer tables to Hindu kavadis, peacocks appear across faiths as symbols of protection, paradise, and renewal, revealing how beliefs travel, adapt, and connect cultures.

Experience the exhibition at The Peranakan Museum, running until 30 Aug 2026.

Get tickets now at go.gov.sg/tpm-tickets

03/07/2026

Peacocks have always fascinated artists, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries they became an especially popular motif in art and design, from London to Japan. Paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts of all kinds featured this distinctive bird.

This talk examines peacock imagery on Javanese batiks from this period, tracing its roots in earlier Javanese art, as well as the cross-cultural connections between these designs and those of the Art Nouveau movement and Japanese print and painting traditions.

This talk is organised in conjunction with Peacock Power: Beauty and Symbolism Across Cultures, on view at the Peranakan Museum until 30 August 2026.

Light refreshments will be served from 6pm onwards.

Thursday, 23 July 2026, 7–8pm
Ixora Room (The Peranakan Museum)
THIS TALK IS FREE.
Registration (with $10 refundable deposit) required.

Register here: https://23july2026.peatix.com/

02/07/2026

Come home to furniture and furnishings in the Peranakan tradition, at our Family and Community Life gallery 🏠

Singaporeans and Permanent Residents enjoy free year-round entry to the Peranakan Museum’s permanent galleries: plan your visit today!

Pair of outer gates (pintu pagar)
Singapore
Late 19th or early 20th century
Gift of Chee Swee Cheng Foundation
2000-03533

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Raffles Park

Telephone

+6563327591

Website

https://www.nhb.gov.sg/peranakanmuseum/

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