What is this e-Museum about?
The famous French author André Malraux spoke about a "museum without walls", and it is appropriate that this descriptive reference becomes a harbinger of a new form of repository of knowledge, the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society's (SEACS) new E-Museum.
This electronic museum is a veritable mine of past and current knowledge of Southeast Asian ceramics, extended and enhanced by information, photographs, and links to various resources. We hope it will bestow on those who wish to scour the ancient past the ability to know more about Southeast Asian ceramics and allied subjects.
In our E-Museum, the Society aims to showcase the collection of ceramics that was featured in the highly successful exhibition called New Light on Old Pottery to celebrate the Society's 40th anniversary in 2009. A book of the same name that was launched, but the Society felt that when the exhibition ended, it would be appropriate to make the exhibition available through the online medium, to continue to provide knowledge and aesthetic pleasure, as the objects have now been returned to storage and may not be seen again for some time.
This E-Museum is created in order to preserve the exhibition's content for those who did not have the opportunity to visit the museum of the National University of Singapore while the show was on display. In addition, the E-Museum can cover a range of topics and kiln sites not covered in the original exhibition, and can continue to evolve as our knowledge of the subject increases. This E-Museum will reach a wider audience and perpetuate the knowledge of ceramics in this region for future generations of scholars and enthusiasts throughout the world.
Enjoy your visit!
This website will be constantly updated to include more regions, kiln sites and related subjects. As it is newly launched, do let us know if you find any bugs. You can report them to ceramic@seaceramic.org.sg or send in your suggestions about how to make this a better place!
