Discover the antique musical boxes in the first musical box museum in Singapore.

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Musical Boxes were an important symbol of European culture dating back to the 19th century and early 20th century.

Historical resources have shown that Singapore played an integral part in the progress and development of musical boxes in South-east Asia during that time frame. 

In this Singapore’s first musical box museum, we aim to share the historical background from the rise to the fall of the musical boxes to how it made its way to Singapore in the 19th century to the public.

We aim to also, to function as a repository for academic research, education and above all, preservation of such artifacts in Singapore for future generations.

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Situated at 168 Telok Ayer Street, Chong-Wen Ge or the “Institute for the Veneration of Literature”, was the first educational institution set up in 1849 by the Chinese community in Singapore.

The school housed in a pagoda to the right of Thian Hock Keng temple, which was the most important Hokkien Temple at the time.

In 1915, one of the earliest Chinese girls’ school, Chong Hock Girls’ School, was founded in the adjacent temple pavilion and the premises remained in use until 1970’s. The temple complex was gazetted as a National Monument in 1973. 

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