HDB's new gallery opens

After a $3.8-million major revamp, HDB reopened its gallery, with an additional multi-sensory and interactive platform to showcase the evolution of public housing in Singapore, as part of its celebration to mark its 50th anniversary.

“The HDB gallery provides a canvas for HDB to portray not only the bricks and mortar, but also the heart and soul of public housing,” said Mohamad Maliki Osman, Parliamentary Secretary for National Development.

HDB is expecting more than 70,000 visitors per year, a 20-percent increase from the average monthly visitors who went into the old gallery before it closed last May. The old HDB gallery lured more than 330,000 local and foreign visitors since it opened in 2003.

The new HDB gallery will display special features such as a circular 360-degree theatre experience and the country’s first life-sized hologram.

The 750-sq-m gallery is expected to attract more visitors, including students and foreign government officials and delegations, who are interested in Singapore’s housing programmes and policies.

According to Dr. Maliki, the new gallery will also be one of the designated sites for delegates in the upcoming World Cities Summit in June this year.