From the Picture Press: An Online Exhibition of the SPH Photographs Collection

From the Picture Press: the SPH Photographs Collection' is an online exhibition based on the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) archive of photographs covering the pre-indepencence period, i.e., 1950-65. It offers a unique opportunity to take a journey back in time, to experience through these black and white images, before Singapore's rapid modernisation and transformation to become one of the Asia's most affluent and technologically sophisticated city-states. The main aim of this paper is to develop and evaluate an online exhibition system and to find out its usefulness to teachers and students. From the user point of view, they would like to have detailed information about the Singapore including its history to the present. It was noticed that online exhibitions' user interfaces depend on the authoring tools that the institutions used. It was also found that internet is a very convenient medium for the teacher and public to deliver heritage and cultural information. School children are definitely excited over the opportunity to visit the online exhibition at home alongwith their parents. The findings show that teachers liked the online exhibition systems which had lot of cultural heritage information and also felt that it is a way to go forward for knowledge transfer in the future for the children.