Highlights

Explore the space:

Atlas: Time-travel across the moments that led to Separation.

Watch the Singapore story unfold across space and time with the Spacetime Clock, which offers a bird's-eye view of the events leading to separation through immersive projections.

Step into history at the Atlas Wall – where speeches, turning points and key moments unfold along a timeline you can explore at your own pace.

Room: Be right there as it happened.

Take a seat at the heart of the story, as Singapore’s Separation comes to life – through reenactments, archival clips, and never-before-released recordings, seen, heard and felt through a sweeping panoramic screen.

Records: Stories, voices and documents from a defining era

Listen to Singapore’s founding leaders reflect on the pressures and choices of this turbulent period, and feel the weight of the decisions that led to independence.

Dive deeper into newly-declassified documents and notes with interactive screens, and uncover layers of context that add new meaning to our story.

ChatBook: Got questions on our separation? Ask away.

Your personal research station, powered by Gen AI. Drawing from rich sources spanning publications to NLB’s own repository of images, videos, oral histories and articles, ChatBook offers new insights to the separation story.