Fashion and Jewellery Galleries Open at ACM

The Asian Civilisations Museum celebrates a major milestone with the opening of its new third floor galleries from April 4, 2020. Themed collectively as Materials and Design, these galleries mark the completion of the ACM’S multi-year refresh of its permanent galleries. Decorative arts are the focus on

Level 3, highlighting a major aspect of ACM’S collection. This affirms the museum’s dedication to the aesthetics and craftsmanship of objects that illuminate global, regional, and local exchanges.

The Fashion and Textiles

gallery explores Asian histories, cultures, and identities through diverse fashion and textiles, which often reveal crosscultural influences. In its first display, the gallery presents “Fashion Revolution: Chinese dress from the late Qing to 1976” from the Chris Hall collection. Visitors will experience how Chinese dress evolved and was modernised from the late Qing dynasty, through the Republican period, and to the end of the Cultural Revolution, reflecting a century of dramatic political, economic, and socio-cultural change and creativity in style and craftsmanship.

The Jewellery gallery displays a dazzling array of predominantly Island Southeast Asian jewellery from the Neolithic period to the 20th century. From life to death, jewellery is present at every stage and shares an intimate relationship with its wearer. Its public display communicates ideas of beauty, rank, and status in vast and unexpected ways. Supported by a generous gift from Edmond Chin in honour of his parents, Mary and Philbert Chin, this gallery adds to the range of treasures on view in the museum.

The Chinese Ceramics

gallery presents a comprehensive survey of Chinese ceramics from the Neolithic period through the Qing dynasty. ACM’S excellent collection of Dehua white porcelain – also popularly known as “blanc de chine “will be on display.

For more information, please visit http://acm. org.sg .