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Diary of an NUS Museum Intern: Marcus Yee
Image credit: Lim Tze Peng, ‘Trees’, 2014
Diary of an NUS Museum Intern is a series of blog posts written by our interns about their experiences during the course of their internships. Working alongside their mentors, our interns have waded through tons of historical research, assisted in curatorial work, pitched in during exhibition installations and organised outreach events! If you would like to become our next intern, visit NUS Museum’s student development page for more information.
Marcus Yee is a second-year student studying History and Earth Systems Science at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). During his time here as our Curatorial Intern, he assisted our curator Siddharta Perez, working on artist research and looking into notions of art and pedagogy.
A marsh is a museum in that they are both anthromes, or anthropogenic biomes, to different degrees. Community ecologies live in both zones, they ride on the crests of waves, beating along with the rain, following the path of rivers. At intermittent grooves along the stream of life, they find respite, however briefly.
A museum is a marsh since they are both archives for atoms, each saturated with an entangled history, histories that overflow beyond our narrative containers. But these histories are never quite past, they persist quite well into the present, sometimes, on frequencies insensible, inscrutable.
A museum is a marsh where there are leaks beyond categorical boundaries, which provide a domesticized comfort to the untamed substratum of contaminated becomings, mutating shapes, unsettling motions. On the surface, these zones uphold the pristine order of colonial taxonomy, that pasts are relegated into the past, life evacuated from the mausolean museum; but as their custodians are well aware, the bleeds and flows are a continuous, albeit unspectacular rhythm.
A marsh is a museum with their reciprocal demands: they demand our care, curiosity, and patience, as we ask from them nourishment. Meeting these demands extend well beyond the principles of management, but rather, an attentiveness towards maintaining worldly connections, as worlds nested within other worlds, a fragile persistence predicated on such intimate ties.
A marsh is a museum, or a museum is a marsh when the staccato of impending crises knows no disciplinary, epistemological, institutional or geographical boundaries. As urgencies short-circuit habituated scripts and roles, learning is not an uphill curve towards mastery, but a jagged, capricious path with no salvific teleology, except, perhaps more modest horizons, shared and inhabitable.
- Student Voices
18 November 2025
16 May 2025
NUS Baba House to undergo two years of conservation works
Enthusiasts can look forward to a slate of programmes ahead of and during the temporary closure.
6 October 2023
NUS Museum receives largest-ever donation of Straits Chinese artefacts
"Collected by Mrs Alice Tan over a 30-year period, the donated artefacts will contribute to a deeper study of the impact of Straits Chinese culture in Singapore and the region, and provide broadened avenues for interdisciplinary collaborations."
15 August 2023
From personal photo collection to exhibition: NUS Museum's latest showcase features visual narratives by 9 members of the NUS community
Titled Photography Journal Open Call (PJOC), the exhibition presents an eclectic collection of photographic works by nine NUS students, alumni artists and academic staff.
12 April 2021
Nurturing a creative campus through public art advocacy
The Public Art Initiative was launched to underscore NUS’ commitment to deepening the role of public art in holistic, interdisciplinary and broad-based education.
8 October 2019
October at the NUS Museum: between war and the artist, art and the tropics
This October, NUS Museum unveils two new exhibitions surveying the art historical in the region from distinct positions.
31 May 2019
New exhibition from Gilles Massot to be unveiled at NUS Museum
“…you have to lose your way to find yourself in the right place” presents the works of Singapore-based French artist, Gilles Massot. Featuring a selection of photographs, videos, sketches and writings from his extensive corpus of works.
14 February 2019
Glossaries of the Straits Chinese Homemaking
Following eleven years of giving glimpses of a Peranakan family’s domestic life in the early 20th century, NUS Baba House presents the exhibition Glossaries of the Straits Chinese Homemaking.
22 March 2018
NUS' cultural icon refreshed for a new generation
The University Cultural Centre's first major renovation improves the high standard of guest comfort, efficiency and production possibilities.
3 February 2017
Exhibition: From the Ashes: Reviving Myanmar Celadon Ceramics
NUS Museum presents ongoing attempts to revive the technology of making ash-glazed ceramics in Myanmar.
23 November 2016
Exhibition: Between the brush lines of Lim Tze Peng
Solo exhibition at NUS Museum considers 70-year oeuvre of Singapore's oldest living artist.
1 November 2016
Book Launch: NUS Baba House launches inaugural guidebook
From architecture to social history, book reveals the myriad facets of Singapore's only restored Straits Chinese family home.
21 October 2016
Exhibition: Looking within - What makes an exhibition?
NUS Museum presents exhibition introspecting into curatorial impulses and the exhibitionary medium.
1 July 2016
Exhibition: "Who wants to remember a war?"
NUS Museum draws on war posters, woodcuts and drawings to explore contemporary narratives of the Vietnam War.
10 May 2016
Award: NUS Museum wins inaugural award for innovative museological practice
International Committee of University Museums and Collections recognises efforts to facilitate conversation between audiences and exhibitions.
14 April 2016
Exhibition: Figuring Ng Eng Teng
NUS Museum reveals unstudied elements and works from the late Cultural Medallion recipient’s practice.
Student Voices
Diary of an NUS Museum Intern: Marcus Yee
Image credit: Lim Tze Peng, ‘Trees’, 2014
Diary of an NUS Museum Intern is a series of blog posts written by our interns about their experiences during the course of their internships. Working alongside their mentors, our interns have waded through tons of historical research, assisted in curatorial work, pitched in during exhibition installations and organised outreach events! If you would like to become our next intern, visit NUS Museum’s student development page for more information.
Marcus Yee is a second-year student studying History and Earth Systems Science at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). During his time here as our Curatorial Intern, he assisted our curator Siddharta Perez, working on artist research and looking into notions of art and pedagogy.
A marsh is a museum in that they are both anthromes, or anthropogenic biomes, to different degrees. Community ecologies live in both zones, they ride on the crests of waves, beating along with the rain, following the path of rivers. At intermittent grooves along the stream of life, they find respite, however briefly.
A museum is a marsh since they are both archives for atoms, each saturated with an entangled history, histories that overflow beyond our narrative containers. But these histories are never quite past, they persist quite well into the present, sometimes, on frequencies insensible, inscrutable.
A museum is a marsh where there are leaks beyond categorical boundaries, which provide a domesticized comfort to the untamed substratum of contaminated becomings, mutating shapes, unsettling motions. On the surface, these zones uphold the pristine order of colonial taxonomy, that pasts are relegated into the past, life evacuated from the mausolean museum; but as their custodians are well aware, the bleeds and flows are a continuous, albeit unspectacular rhythm.
A marsh is a museum with their reciprocal demands: they demand our care, curiosity, and patience, as we ask from them nourishment. Meeting these demands extend well beyond the principles of management, but rather, an attentiveness towards maintaining worldly connections, as worlds nested within other worlds, a fragile persistence predicated on such intimate ties.
A marsh is a museum, or a museum is a marsh when the staccato of impending crises knows no disciplinary, epistemological, institutional or geographical boundaries. As urgencies short-circuit habituated scripts and roles, learning is not an uphill curve towards mastery, but a jagged, capricious path with no salvific teleology, except, perhaps more modest horizons, shared and inhabitable.
- Student Voices
News
18 November 2025
16 May 2025
NUS Baba House to undergo two years of conservation works
Enthusiasts can look forward to a slate of programmes ahead of and during the temporary closure.
6 October 2023
NUS Museum receives largest-ever donation of Straits Chinese artefacts
"Collected by Mrs Alice Tan over a 30-year period, the donated artefacts will contribute to a deeper study of the impact of Straits Chinese culture in Singapore and the region, and provide broadened avenues for interdisciplinary collaborations."
15 August 2023
From personal photo collection to exhibition: NUS Museum's latest showcase features visual narratives by 9 members of the NUS community
Titled Photography Journal Open Call (PJOC), the exhibition presents an eclectic collection of photographic works by nine NUS students, alumni artists and academic staff.
12 April 2021
Nurturing a creative campus through public art advocacy
The Public Art Initiative was launched to underscore NUS’ commitment to deepening the role of public art in holistic, interdisciplinary and broad-based education.
8 October 2019
October at the NUS Museum: between war and the artist, art and the tropics
This October, NUS Museum unveils two new exhibitions surveying the art historical in the region from distinct positions.
31 May 2019
New exhibition from Gilles Massot to be unveiled at NUS Museum
“…you have to lose your way to find yourself in the right place” presents the works of Singapore-based French artist, Gilles Massot. Featuring a selection of photographs, videos, sketches and writings from his extensive corpus of works.
14 February 2019
Glossaries of the Straits Chinese Homemaking
Following eleven years of giving glimpses of a Peranakan family’s domestic life in the early 20th century, NUS Baba House presents the exhibition Glossaries of the Straits Chinese Homemaking.
22 March 2018
NUS' cultural icon refreshed for a new generation
The University Cultural Centre's first major renovation improves the high standard of guest comfort, efficiency and production possibilities.
3 February 2017
Exhibition: From the Ashes: Reviving Myanmar Celadon Ceramics
NUS Museum presents ongoing attempts to revive the technology of making ash-glazed ceramics in Myanmar.
23 November 2016
Exhibition: Between the brush lines of Lim Tze Peng
Solo exhibition at NUS Museum considers 70-year oeuvre of Singapore's oldest living artist.
1 November 2016
Book Launch: NUS Baba House launches inaugural guidebook
From architecture to social history, book reveals the myriad facets of Singapore's only restored Straits Chinese family home.
21 October 2016
Exhibition: Looking within - What makes an exhibition?
NUS Museum presents exhibition introspecting into curatorial impulses and the exhibitionary medium.
1 July 2016
Exhibition: "Who wants to remember a war?"
NUS Museum draws on war posters, woodcuts and drawings to explore contemporary narratives of the Vietnam War.
10 May 2016
Award: NUS Museum wins inaugural award for innovative museological practice
International Committee of University Museums and Collections recognises efforts to facilitate conversation between audiences and exhibitions.
14 April 2016
Exhibition: Figuring Ng Eng Teng
NUS Museum reveals unstudied elements and works from the late Cultural Medallion recipient’s practice.
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