Welcome to the Adam Park Virtual Museum
If you are reading this then its safe to say the ‘Go Live’ of the Adam Park Virtual Museum was a success and we must welcome into the world the first ever Virtual Battlefield Museum for Singapore. Congratulations to Verz for getting us up and running !
I hope you find the site of interest and you can find what you want quickly and efficiently. I hope, as well that, like in any real museum, you take time to delve into the archives, stop by the new exhibits and explore the galleries. New items will be added to the collection in the months to come so keep a look out for the latest exhibitions.
The museum is designed to be an interactive site so please feel free to leave constructive and informative comments as you visit each artifact. Any associated wartime anecdotes, extra information or learned observations will be most welcome. We will not post any old rubbish though so be thoughtful in your writings and I reserve the right to edit as required !
As for you dedicated Researchers, please try out the online database search of the Cambridgeshires’ Casualties and dive head first into the primary source material. Our aim is to put all source documents on line so you can come up with your own interpretation of the battle site and POW camp.
All images are free to use for academic purposes and research. Give us a call if you wish to publish images and we can sort out the copyright for you. The aim is to tell the story of Adam Park to as wide an audience as possible and not squirrel away the collection within locked cupboards in a stuffy dusty archive.
Conversely, if you have any items you would like displayed in the museum, drop me a line. I am sure there is a lot more items out there and I hope you feel this would be a good way to share your treasured family possessions with a wider audience and that its a fitting tribute to the men and women who passed through the estate during those war years . So if you or your family have any connections to wartime Adam Park and you have items to put on display then please give us a call.
So welcome, enjoy and I hope you find the site of interest.
Jon Cooper
Museum Curator and TAPP Project Manager