Raffles Place

01 APR 2020

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As Singapore’s oldest commercial district, Raffles Place has witnessed some of the biggest changes on the island. Known as Commercial Square until 1858, Raffles Place was demarcated by Sir Stamford Raffles as a space for commercial activities in 1828. Since then, this piece of land has evolved from a swampland to become the commercial heart of Singapore.

Embark on this VR tour on Raffles Place to learn about its history.

View this VR tour in full screen or on your mobile device by scanning the QR code below.

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Notes:

  1. The photographs used in the VR tour are selected from PictureSG and the photograph database of the National Archives of Singapore

  2. VR Tour Background Image Credit: Scene 1: Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and Leiden University Library/Wikimedia Commons; Scene 2: Courtesy of National Archives of Singapore; Scene 3: Courtesy of National Archives of Singapore; Scene 4: Ministry of Information and the Arts Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore; Scene 5: Ministry of Information and the Arts Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore; Scene 6: Google Street View.

  3. This VR tour used related articles in Infopedia, HistorySG, BiblioAsia, and Roots as references. It also consulted the following books: Singapore Street Names: A Study of Toponymics (2013), What’s in the Name?: How the Streets and Villages in Singapore Got Their Names (2018), Ray Tyers’ Singapore: Then & Now (2018), Singapore: A Guide to Buildings, Streets, Places (1988), In Granite and Chunam: The National Monuments of Singapore (1996), and Singapore: A Pictorial History 1819-2000 (1999).