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Video installation, artillery shell casing on display in S'pore to remember late leader Lee Kuan Yew

Xinhua, March 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

New video installation which recalls Singapore's founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's State Funeral Procession, and an artillery shell casing from the 21-gun salute donated by PM Lee Hsien Loong, will be on display at National Museum of Singapore on Wednesday, said Singapore's National Heritage Board(NHB) in a press release on Tuesday.

To commemorate the first anniversary of the passing of Lee Kuan Yew, National Museum of Singapore commissioned local film-maker Royston Tan to produce a video installation named "A Moment in Unity", which reflects upon the coming together of Singaporeans and the indomitable spirit they showed during the week of national mourning. The video also brings together moving images captured by photographers on the ground.

NHB said the video installation is part of "We Built A Nation" curated by the National Museum of Singapore. This exhibition chronicles the roles that Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore's pioneer generation of leaders played in developing the country's economy, foreign policy and diplomacy, security and defence, education and infrastructure.

Artefacts and items, many of which have never been exhibited in public, will be on display at the exhibition, NHB added.

An artillery shell casing from the 21-gun salute during Lee Kuan Yew's State Funeral Procession, which was donated by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, can also be seen at the exhibition. The artillery shell casing had been presented to PM Lee, but the prime minister chose to donate it to NHB.

"A Moment in Unity" and the artillery shell casing will be presented at the Museum's Concourse Gallery until Oct. 2, according to NHB's press release.

Singapore's founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew passed away at the age of 91 on March 23, 2015. Two days after his passing, National Museum of Singapore presented an exhibition "In Memoriam: Lee Kuan Yew", which received nearly 210,000 visitors. Enditem