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Happy 2010!

While half of the world has already put away their celebratory hats and champagne cups, some are still stocking on fireworks for another big celebration… the Chinese New Year! On February 14th begins the Year of the Tiger… which means… it’s time for another exhibition at the Singapore Philatelic Museum!

On previous years, these collaborations resulted in amazing exhibitions (Year of the Rat, Year of the Ox) and so, once again, the museum is asking the Postcrossing community for submissions. This time the theme is, of course, tigers! You can mail your postcards and/or stamps featuring these big felines to:

Mishelle at the Philatelic Museum promises to reply to all the cards received till February 10th, so what are you waiting for?

Happy Year of the Tiger! Xin nian kuai le!

Not so long ago, we talked about the collaboration between Postcrossing and the Singapore Philatelic Museum. Their “A rat’s tale” exhibit to celebrate the Year of the Rat received many postcards about that theme from Postcrossing members related, which were then displayed as part of the exhibit.

This collaboration was so successful that we repeated the request to all Postcrossers for this years “A Cow and Bull Story” show to celebrate the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Ox. And once again, many were very enthusiastic and contributed with postcards to exhibit.

Mishelle at the Museum sent us some photos to share with everyone:

This exhibit will be on display till August, so if you have the chance to be in Singapore, be sure to pay a visit!

While lost on the streets of Singapore a few months ago, we stumbled upon the Singapore Philatelic Museum. Naturally curious of all postal things, we decided to visit!

A tour of the museum provides a fresh insight of the culture and history of Singapore, not only through stamps and correspondence, but also using really interesting interactive displays. There were several exhibitions on display and one about the year of the rat in the Chinese zodiac attracted our attention.

Titled “A Rat’s tale”, it promised “insights into the lives of these commonly misunderstood creatures and discover how rats have made their way into history, literature, and even pop culture”.

We made our way through the games, and then in the middle of the room, we checked out some rat/mouse themed postcards. And as we started to read the postcards, something sounded funny… Most of them mentioned a swap, and some even had familiar names on them like Mount_rushmore, Swan, fragility, aina77 and orange_juice_drinker… Wait, these were sent by postcrossers!!

And then Paulo hit his head and said “But of course! The mouse exhibition!”

You see, about this time last year we were contacted by Mishelle at the Philatelic Museum asking help about setting up this exhibition. We had already forgotten all about it when we entered the museum, and had quite a surprise! And a lot of you participated, as the number of postcards showed:

Thank you everybody, thank you Mishelle for being so nice and setting up this exhibition!

Now, the “Year of the Ox” is approaching in the chinese calendar so… who wants to take part in the next exhibition?

Update: This exhibition is opening soon, so this activity is now closed. Thank you to everybody who sent postcards to the Singapore Philatelic Museum, pictures are coming soon :)

PS – If you celebrate Christmas, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas!