MODERN COLONY

The Modern Colony exhibition, set in a black and white bungalow from the 1920s, shows the cosmopolitan nature of Singapore when it was a British colony in the 1920s and 1930s, focusing above all on the contribution made by women. With the opening up of schools to girls and the arrival of female immigrants from China, women began to occupy increasingly important public roles in what had until then been a patriarchal society.