via AsiaOne, 16 February 2023: Singapore’s Peranakan Museum reopens after a four-year renovation.
At 39 Armenian Street stands a three-storey building in a fresh coat of mint green and white, looking decidedly like a giant ondeh ondeh cake — and, like the nyonya kueh, it is equally inviting.
While you can’t take a bite out of it, the refreshed Peranakan Museum — which reopens its doors after close to four years of renovation and other complications, (no) thanks to the Covid pandemic — is a veritable buffet of treasures that throw the spotlight on the multi-faceted diversity of Singapore’s deliciously rich Peranakan culture.
Over 800 objects, artefacts and set pieces are proof that it would be grossly erroneous for one to reduce being Peranakan to simply wearing a sarong kebaya and beaded slippers.
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