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Abstract

Taking museum exhibitions, publications, and restaurants as a focus, this essay explores how food is used and represented in museums in Singapore, revealing a wider story about nationalism and identity. It traces the transition of food from an element of exhibitions, to a focus of exhibitions, to its current position as an appendage to exhibition. The National Museum is a key site for national meaning making and we examine the colonial natural history drawings of William Farquhar in several iterations; how food shortages during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore during World War II have been used for nation-building; and hawker food as iconography and focus of culinary design objects. Issues of national identity within a multi-ethnic society are then highlighted in the context of the National Kitchen restaurant at the National Gallery of Singapore.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Tarulevicz, NT and Hudd, S
Keywords:	Singapore, museums, hawker food, memory, nation building
Journal or Publication Title:	Digest
Publisher:	American Folklore Society
ISSN:	2329-4787
Copyright Information:	© American Folklore Society 2018
Related URLs:	UTAS Profile: Tarulevicz, NT UTAS Profile: Hudd, S
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