The National Gallery Singapore occupies two buildings that, between them, witnessed much of the country's modern history.

City Hall, completed in 1929, was where Japan surrendered at the end of World War II, where Lee Kuan Yew proclaimed Home Rule in 1959, and where Singapore's first independent Cabinet was sworn in. The adjacent former Supreme Court, completed in 1939, was the last neoclassical building in Singapore, its entrance decorated with sculptures by Italian sculptor Rudolfo Nolli.

The two were merged to open as the National Gallery in 2015, joined by a covered walkway and housing Southeast Asia's largest public collection of modern art. Inside, Georgette Chen's Post-Impressionist oils sit alongside pioneers of the Nanyang style and contemporary artists from across the region.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace the gallery's façades as a record of colonial ambition and national transformation, placing the art inside the political story written on its walls.