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Education and social engineering: Museums in Singapore
Can-Seng Ooi
Associate Professor and DirectorCenter for Leisure & Culture Services
Copenhagen Business School
Agenda
• Setting out the issues
• Examples
• A fledging Occupy Museum moving
The Main Museums in Singapore
• The National Museum of Singapore (NMS)
• The Singapore Art Museum (SAM)
• Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM)
Main museum issues in Singapore
• Political pragmatism• Research
– History and identity• Education
– National education program– Gracious society
• Industry– A Renaissance City– Creative industries
Political pragmatism
• Economic development above ideology
• Citizenship: Rights versus privilege
• Freedom and responsibility
• Identities: Descriptive and normative
Research role of the Asian Civilisations
Museum
• Chinese, Indian, Malay and Others (CMIO) model
• Singaporeans’ ancestral cultures
• Ancient “Asian values”
Official’s hat armchair Huanghuali wood Ming dynasty
Educational role of the NMS
The Singapore Story• Colonial period (1819 – 1945)• Political awakening (1945 – 1955) • Communist threat (1955 – 1961)• Battle for merger (1961 – 1963)• Merger years (1963 – 1965)• From survival to progress
(1965 – present)• Future in our hands (future)
Industry and the Singapore Art
Museum
• 20th Century Southeast Asian visual art
• Move to contemporary art• Move towards
“community participation”• Market definition of value
Occupy Museums
• New anti-CMIO identities
• Contemporary art and its discontents
• Internet, social media and independent art spaces
Thank you for your attention!
• www.ooi.dk• [email protected]