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Wooden Butterflies and Egyptian Afterlife.


If you are an old reader of my blog, you may find this photo familiar. Once again, we visited the Singapore Art Museum during the New Year (week). :p

That was back in January. There were several good exhibitions on works of Filipino artists. I was particularly fond of some paintings,Carlos Francisco's "Sinigang", Félix Resurrección Hidalgo's "La Banca", and Melvin Culaba's "Hanapbuhay". At the second floor of the museum, there was an interesting static display, titled "MANG EMO + MAG-HIMO GRAND PIANO PROJECT". There were these wooden butterflies scattered over the area. Couldn't resist but to take a couple of photos. One of them blended nicely with the floor...

And this, sat at the corner of the wall, in shade and in light.

We also visited another museum in January, the National Museum of Singapore. Yeeaah... Visit-the-Museum-Month (?). ;-p The reason for the visit is none other than the "Quest for Immortality - The Ancient World of Egypt" exhibition.

The exhibition end will end on 4 April. So as not to spoil it for those who have not visited it yet, I decided to delay this entry till now. With only one month to go, those who are interested would have visited, and those who ain't, maybe these photos will prompt you to go take a look!
















While nothing can really beat my experience of the impressive ancient Egypt collection at the British Museum, I think there were still many things to learn from this exhibition. This time, I was impressed too - the amazing work was put into the lighting which brought out the best of each artifact.

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