Haw Par Villa : Visit one of the Asia’s rich open cultural gallery in Singapore

The sculptures comes alive once you understand the story behind it.Amazing story telling and a great opportunity to witness the old art and cultures influenced by Chinese mythology.

  • 10 courts of hell
  • Depicts how living activities of old Chinese village
  • Famous Tiger balm
  • Richest family is Asia
  • Chinese mythology and story telling
  • Open art gallery in the world
  • Nice view of Harbour Front with the cargo ships loading and unloading.

One of the most attraction that you should never miss is Ten courts of hell.You should be bold enough to enter the cave of hell.You will get goose bump once you enter into the time-machine that will let you feel like a thrilling earth.

The different characters of statues in ten different courts of hell shows, how an offender goes into different stages of punishment till death based on the offence .This is nothing less than a famous horror Hollywood movie Saw. The scene of dissecting different body parts in live,putting into a pond of thrones ,letting feel suffer to show loved one in trouble are a few of those.

Believed on the Chinese and Buddhist mythology, these stories interprets the scary environment how the hell is.and how a sole is released after so much of sufferings.

There are many other stories also which showcases the greatness of their art at those time of Chinese sculptors with their colorful statues.

Take a good clicks of the masks of different characters.

Children will also enjoy with the stories of Monkey empire..including others. Those represents how moral value is shared among community in Chinese culture.

Get a feel of how a traditional Chinese village looks like , depicting different walks of life .

There are even stories of god and animals also sharing the morals to us.

The continuous series of stories of different human evolution form different groups of people were eye catching with their perfect sculpting skills.

There is a museum also ,covering the expansion of their Tiger balm business of Haw family , one of the richest Asian family at that time and the purpose of building this amazing cultural garden ,and donating towards public.

Thanks to the family of Haw Par for their great work towards the society as a result we could witness the rich Chinese art and culture.

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