The Intan, a private museum owned and run by Alvin Yapp who realized his Peranakan/Chinese heritage was being lost.

The Intan, a private museum owned and run by Alvin Yapp who realized his Peranakan/Chinese heritage was being lost. Stock Photo
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Yvette Cardozo / Alamy Stock Photo

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2466 x 3700 px | 20.9 x 31.3 cm | 8.2 x 12.3 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

8 April 2015

Location:

SINGAPORE

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The Intan, a private museum owned and run by Alvin Yapp who realized his Peranakan/Chinese heritage was being lost. So he started accumulating antiques including an intricately carved Chinese ancestral altar, rare porcelain ware, hundreds of stunningly valuable beaded slippers and much more. Here Alvin points to Polish made enamelware lunch carriers which were popular in Singapore many decades ago.