Museum Research Week

NUS Museum is hosting the inaugural Museum Research Week for all students and faculty members to learn more about past and present research done on the Museum’s collections, as well as to invite prospective students to apply for our upcoming cycle of NUS Museum and Alice & Agnes Tan Student Research Fellowships (NUSMAATSRF).

Launch and Sharing Sessions for NUSMAATSRF AY2526

Potential applicants for the upcoming cycle of Student Research Fellowships are invited to hear from our inaugural batch of student research fellows on their process and experience in engaging with the Museum’s resources, such as the Prospectus, for their own research. Discover how they consider the performativity of watercolour paintings by Charles Dyce, the history of classifying ceramics used by the Peranakan Chinese, as well as examining the coastal lives of boats.

Research Work with the Museum

Find out how the Museum’s collaborators go beyond conventional academic sources through artworks and artefacts in the Museum’s collection to uncover new and exciting knowledge! From the analysis of chemical composition of ceramic sherds, to examining the practice of ancestral worship, semayang, to documenting heritage of individual offshore islands that now make up Jurong Island.

Student-Led Tours

Explore the NUS Museum, campus-wide public art, and NUS Baba House through three Student-Led Tours authored and guided by our student interns. From queerness as a way of seeing, to the shifting temporalities of public memory, to the hybridity of Peranakan identity, these tours offer new perspectives on art, space, and history.

Day 1 at NUS Museum [Tuesday, 25 March 2025]

2pm – 3pm: Research Sharing by Ryan-Ashleigh Boey (Literature and English Language)

3pm – 4pm: Art and Chemistry of Ceramic Sherds by Amberly Yeo (NUS College)

4pm – 4.45pm / 5.30pm: Student-Led Tours by Genesis Phan (Literature) and Viola Chee (Literature)

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Day 2 at NUS Baba House [Wednesday, 26 March 2025]

3pm – 4pm: Research Sharing by Gan Xin Chen (Political Science and History)

4pm – 5pm: Semayang Research Project by Chen Wyman (PPE) and Gwen Lim (Geography)

5pm – 6pm: Student-Led Tour by Chen Wyman and Gwen Lim

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Day 3 at NUS Museum [Thursday, 27 March 2025]

2pm – 3pm: Research Sharing by Kazuto Nakano (Yale-NUS, Anthropology)