WHAT'S ON
Special Exhibition
Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship
11 Oct 2024 – 31 Aug 2025
Family, art, and entrepreneurship converge in the story of three visionary Peranakan women from Indonesia – Nyonya Oeij Soen King, her daughter-in-law Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing, and her granddaughter Jane Hendromartono. From the 1890s to 1980s, they produced impressive batiks in the renowned batik centre of Pekalongan on Java’s north coast. This exhibition explores the lives and works of these women, revealing how each became a batik master in her own right, and how they responded to the rapid political, cultural, and economic changes of their times to run a business that produced great art.
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Programmes
Daily Guided Tours at Peranakan Museum
Daily
Guided tours led by our volunteer docents are available daily.
DETAILSGALLERIES
How cultures interact and combine to produce something new, different, and distinctive, revealing a range of Peranakan customs, foods, languages, and beliefs.
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Like food and art, Peranakan fashion has for centuries responded to the cosmopolitan environment of port cities in Southeast Asia by bringing together diverse influences.
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What makes someone or something Peranakan? Which parts can be traced to different cultural influences? Where varied expressions exist, is there something that is shared?
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OUR PERANAKAN STORIES
“One of the most important aspects of beading is that the person must be patient. Beading is not something you can do in a hurried way; you cannot speed up by trying to use a machine.”
Bebe Seet, Rumah Bebe
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