ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how everyday memories of the war have formed the centrepiece of the Memories at Old Ford Factory (MOFF). It also explains on how memories have been inserted into everyday landscapes. In addition to museums, cemeteries, and interpretive centres, scattered around Singapore are also other more ubiquitous types of memoryscapes that seek to commemorate significant war-related events that occurred in situ: be it a massacre location, an internment camp, the battlegrounds where heavy fighting occurred between the Allied forces and the Japanese, or buildings utilised by either of the two warring sides for specific purposes. Indeed, not all memoryscapes in the public sphere are found within confined spaces. Many take the form of small and inconspicuous insertions in the landscape to make 'explicit that which is implicit in the local landscape'. Thus, through the storyboards, plaques, and historic markers in Singapore, the local population is further nudged to come into contact with the past of the country.
