When we say schools that have been turned into museums, you’d probably think about the old St Joseph’s Institution at Bras Basah Road that now houses the Singapore Art Museum. But just around the corner is another museum that resides in a former school building. Does this look familiar to you?

You would probably recognise the building as the Peranakan Museum, which is part of the Asian Civilisations Museum. But did you know that the Peranakan Museum building was also once home to Tao Nan School? yg writes about the history of the school:

tao nan school was set up by the hokkien huay kuan. it began in 1906 with 36 pupils in ‘siam house’ in north bridge road. the medium of instruction was hokkien. it moved to armenian street in 1910 and in 1916 tao nan became the first school in singapore to use mandarin as the medium of instruction.

Find out more about Tao Nan School in yg’s post here. Where can you find Tao Nan School today?