Museum Research Week - Day 2 at NUS Baba House

NUS Museum is hosting the 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). 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.

Through the week, there will be multiple sharings by our various collaborators and student research fellows on their perspectives and curiosities on the collections in the Museum and Baba House.

Find out more about the NUS Museum and Alice & Agnes Tan Student Research Fellowships HERE.

Launch and Sharing Session for NUSMAATSRF AY2526:

Sharing by Gan Xin Chen

Date: Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Time: 3PM - 4PM

Location: NUS Baba House

NUS Museum is launching applications for the new cycle of Student Research Fellowships with NUS Museum and the Baba House. At Museum Research Week, we invite potential applicants for the upcoming cycle of Student Research Fellowships to hear from our inaugural batch of student research fellows how their process was like in engaging with the Museum's resources such as NUS Museum's Prospectus for their own research.

Join us for a sharing session with Gan Xin Chen and learn more about her research that is focused on studying the ceramics found in the Straits Chinese Collection of NUS Museum and its provenance and terminology as used by the Peranakan Chinese community.

Research Work with the Baba House:

Semayang Research Project

Date: Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Time: 4PM - 5PM

Location: NUS Baba House

Research with NUS Museum provides a rare opportunity to work outside conventional academic sources through artworks and artifacts in the Museum's collection. Various collaborators have performed research work on our collections and exhibition archives in many forms. Discover how they work with the Museum's collections to uncover new and exciting knowledge.

Join Baba House research interns Gwen Lim Jin Xuan and Chen Wyman as they share their experience developing, planning and working with six Temasek Junior College students to undertake a research project around the semayang (ancestral worship) at Baba House.

Student-Led Tours:

Reconciling Hybridities: Negotiating Identity through Domestic Objects

by Chen Wymen and Gwen Lim

Date: Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Time: 5PM - 6PM

Location: NUS Baba House

What does it mean to become a “hybrid?” Join this student tour co-led by Gwen Lim Jin Xuan and Chen Wyman as they bring you around Baba House through its ornaments and objects, exploring the hybridity of the Peranakan Chinese identity and material culture. As they unpack the histories, tensions and contradictions behind the glamour and opulence of the objects, you are invited to question the complexity of identity making and hybridised cultures.