The National Museum of Singapore is the city's oldest museum, and it wears its history on its face.

The neo-classical Victorian façade at the front is exactly as Stamford Raffles imagined when he first proposed the institution in the early 19th century. Directly behind it, a much larger extension of glass and metal modernism stretches back towards Fort Canning Park, the two halves an accidental portrait of Singapore itself.

Among the museum's most remarkable objects is the Singapore Stone, a fragment of a sandstone boulder salvaged from the mouth of the Singapore River, inscribed with a script that remains undeciphered to this day. The stone dates the site's history back to the 13th century.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use the museum as a waypoint on routes connecting colonial Singapore's civic institutions, tracing how the island's founding ambitions in education, governance and culture took permanent shape in stone.