We’d strongly recommend keeping an eye out for family events at  the Peranakan Museum, as this account by V shows that the kids events that they run are indeed quite good fun.

Noey and I took a look around the galleries and we (or rather, I) oohed and ahhed over the lovely and elaborate dinner settings and the many displays of colourful kam chengs. I would dearly love to own a set of such crockery! There were many pretty kebayas on display too but alas, Noey wouldn’t let me stop too long to admire them. What he did love were the little embossing machines that were scattered around the galleries. The kids were given discs explaining the different symbols and motifs used in Peranakan culture and these could be embossed with the embossing machines. It was fun getting the prints — even I wanted a go!

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