Nei Xue Tang Museum Explained

The Nei Xue Tang Museum ("Hall of Inner Learning") is a private museum of Buddhist art in Singapore. It is the first home museum in Singapore.

The museum was created by collector Woon Wee Teng under a program enacted by the Singapore government to allow collectors to show their collections in their own homes.^[1] Opened in 2005,^[2] the collection is located in a four-storey pre-war house built in the Peranakan style on Cantonment Road.^[3] It is Singapore's first home museum. The museum is by invitation only.^[4]

Singaporean billionaire businessman, Oei Hong Leong, houses most of his 50,000-piece collection of Buddhist artifacts at the Museum.

In 2007, Woon announced plans for a much larger museum to house more Buddhist artifacts.^[5] Oei subsequently bought the museum but decided not to expand the museum.

See also

• List of museums in Singapore
• Japanese sculpture
• Khmer sculpture
• Korean Buddhist sculpture
• Lao Buddhist sculpture
• Thai art
• Thai Buddhist sculpture

External links

• Official website

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Notes and References

1. Karen Mazurkewich, "Private Spaces", The Wall Street Journal, 2 December 2005.
2. Valerie Tan, "Singaporean opens museum featuring Buddhist artefacts", Channel NewsAsia at The Buddhist Channel, 22 May 2005.
3. Web site: Nei Xue Tang - A Buddhist Art Museum . 30 January 2023 . Time Out Singapore . en-GB.
4. Web site: Karmali . Naazneen . Billionaire Oei Hong Leong's Buddhist Treasures . 30 January 2023 . Forbes . en.
5. News: Hong . Lynda . 11 November 2007 . Nei Xue Tang to build world Buddhist museum featuring rare artefacts . . dead . 2023-01-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071111132151/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/310811/1/.html . 11 November 2007.