For the afternoon I (upon reccomendation of a girl in my hostel) went to the Red Dot Museum. There is only 2 of these in the world, the other being in Germany, so I was expecting a bit of a treat and a unique experience. Certainly outside the traffic building (named this because it used to be the base of traffic police in Singapore) it was brightly painted in a red hue and attention seeking.
An award winning chair
Inside after walking through the building occupied by many other businesses it was clear the museum was actually quite small. About 1/5 of what the outside building looks like, and only on one floor. The pictures above and below are the entire exhibit.
Interior with displays against the walls
Considering it’s the same price as every other museum, I found it a bit cheeky as it offers very little to the imagination, award winning items includes the Apple iPhone, some Samsung TV, a random vacuum cleaner that chair you see above. There really is nothing to see here that you won’t find in a modern shopping mall, or even your own home. The woman at the reception said I could watch a video which I had to turn on using some iPod remote control. It didn’t work. So much for award winning produce.
Flower grows as urine enters the hole
That said I liked 2 things. One was a lightbulb mounted into a bottle cap, this can be screwed on any bottle and used as a torch lighting inside the bottle (like the clubbers favourite glow light) or outside like a traditional torch. It was powered by squeezing the bottle rather then any batteries so great for the environment too. The second thing I liked was a urinal. The piss pots were built into a iPod looking wall and as you urinate inside a virtual flower grows on the outside, completely useless on many scales, but I guess it gave someone a job for a while.
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The Red Dot Museum looks pretty interesting
What a strange place – looking forward to reading your work at Matador U. Oh and I really like your blog design especially the boxes around the photos – how do you do that?
Hi Amiee :^)
It was a bit underwhelming this museum, I would hope the German one is better.
Blog design was done in Thesis theme.
Boxes around photos are done in the wordpress software, when you insert a image, type in a caption and it the box is generated to contain it. The colour is editted in css using wp-caption tag. Hope that helps.
I’m going to the museum cause I live in singapore.
Go for it :-) I imagine it changes every once in a while anyway.
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