Peranakan Museum

Singapore has been an important port for hundreds of years. Some of the men who traveled here as merchant sailors from India, Indonesia, or China, settled and married local women of Malay heritage. Their descendants are known as Peranakans. They have an identity as a Singaporean ethnic group. We visited a small museum that presents some of their heritage and culture.

I thought the most impressive part of the museum was a room full of larger-than-life photographic prints of Peranakans. Below are a few examples. The photos were accompanied by brief quotes from each subject about what being Peranakan means to them.