Army Museum Of Singapore

The role of this modern day military museum is clearly to inspire, move and transform the soldiers of tomorrow.

​As a grand salute to the past, present, and future soldiers of Singapore, the Army Museum of Singapore was launched in 2007 and is located in an imposing purpose-built building around a picturesque lake along Upper Jurong Road next to the SAFTI military school.

Designed to resemble three rock-like structures, the museum features six galleries showcasing the development of the Army from its formative years to the present day. Within each of these galleries, immersive and interactive media are incorporated into showcases, video walls, 3-D monitor screens. An interesting segment of the gallery tour allows audiences to sound, sights and smells of being in a modern war with whizzing shells and the smell of gunpowder simulating a battlefield environment.

​Showcases were customised to the most unusual and challenging applications, solely driven by the need to invoke a sense of awe and surprise for the display objects amidst the chaos and sound-bites of modern war and warfare.

T​rika’s technical brief was to design and fabricate a range of bespoke cases dedicated to site-specific requirements. This requires the team to apply a full suite of case-making expertise to conceal, camouflage and deliver display cases that at times appear to be part of the remains of a war zone. Full-height display cases using pull & slide opening mechanisms are seemingly embedded on a mountainous outcropping of boulders and rocks. A 4 metre square case becomes part of an interactive game of miniature robots whilst another showcase sits within a bombed-out shelter. Window-framed display cases peek out from heavily camouflaged walls and niches, each telling a story through audio phones or as a staged scene within a diorama.

​Interestingly, the challenges include the re-design of opening access panels and the demands of encasing and displaying heavy arms and military weapons.

​All of the cases and plinths have custom shapes and finishes in either barn wood or gunmetal and have been painstakingly finished in detail in order to best deliver the range of war displays.