Singapore Musical Box Museum (GPS: 1.28083, 103.84746) is a speciality museum in downtown Singapore. The museum, which is located on Telok Ayer Street next to Thian Hock Keng Temple, is housed in a 2-storey wooden building. It houses a collection of some forty European as well as Asian versions of music boxes from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The building housing the Singapore Musical Box Museum itself is of historic significance. It was the Chong-Wen Ge, or Institute for the Veneration of Literature, the first educational institution to be set up by the Chinese community in Singapore, dating to 1849. That institution occupies an octagonal pagoda which is still standing today. Then, in 1915, the Chong Hock Girls' School was founded, and occupies the temple pavilion until the 1970s.
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