NUS Museum

The NUS Museum is the university museum of the National University of Singapore, located at the University Cultural Centre on Kent Ridge Crescent in Queenstown. Established in 1955 as the University Art Museum, it is Singapore's oldest university museum. It manages four permanent collections including the Lee Kong Chian Collection, Ng Eng Teng Collection, and South and Southeast Asian collections, presenting art, artefacts and exhibitions supporting teaching, research and public engagement.

Visitors can expect a compact university museum within the NUS Kent Ridge campus, spread across galleries at the University Cultural Centre. The museum displays Chinese ceramics, bronzes and paintings from the Lee Kong Chian Collection, sculptures and works by Ng Eng Teng, and archaeological and ethnographic materials from South and Southeast Asia. Spaces include permanent collection galleries and rotating temporary exhibitions, with interpretive panels, guided tours and educational programmes in a quiet academic setting.

Founded in 1955 as the University Art Museum at the then University of Malaya on Bukit Timah Road, making it Singapore's oldest university museum. Its core Lee Kong Chian Collection was donated in the 1950s-1970s. The museum moved to the Kent Ridge campus and was re-established as NUS Museum, continuing to support university teaching and research while preserving collections spanning Chinese art, Southeast Asian archaeology and modern Singapore art including the Ng Eng Teng bequest.

Serves as the cultural and art museum of the National University of Singapore, preserving and presenting Chinese art, Southeast Asian material culture and modern Singapore art for education and research. It functions as a teaching museum for students and the public, hosting exhibitions, talks and programmes that connect art history, archaeology and contemporary practice.