Spice warehouses! Nutmeg mania! Walk the colonial past of Singapore’s Emerald Hill


Singaporean artist Anthony Chin posing with a 4.9m sculpture of Prince Albert’s feet inside the living room of an Emerald Hill shophouse in Singapore. Photos: Ernest Goh

Singaporean arts organisation Oh! Open House has curated art walks that have taken viewers into the homes and stories of present-day residents of Joo Chiat and other neighbourhoods in Singapore.

Its eighth edition next month, however, takes ticket-holders into the colonial past of the Emerald Hill area, when Orchard Road was known for nutmeg plantations.

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