ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how the Singapore state has sought to 'localise' through the museum, the Second World War. Since the 1980s, memoryscapes linked to Singapore's involvement in the Second World War have become visible components of the national space. Alongside the attempts to 'nationalise' Changi Chapel and Museum as a distinctively Singaporean memoryscape, 'The Story of Changi' is central to the commemoration of the war effort as part of the Australian and New Zealand Armed Corps (ANZAC) tradition that forms the foundation of Australian nationhood. Despite efforts to ensure gender-parity in representations of the war within the museum, it has also been criticised for the limited rendering of the war stories of local women. The perception of the museum as 'national' is also eroded by the presence of transnational commemorators in Singapore. The toponymic similarity of the Changi Chapel in both Singapore and Australia has often meant that differences between the two tend to be overlooked.
