This photograph shows Sir Frederick Weld, Governor of the Straits Settlements, who was the main driver of the project, at the foundation-stone laying ceremony of the Raffles Library and Museum—later renamed the National Museum. In 1892, the Raffles Library and Museum was hailed in Presbyterian Minister Reverend G. M. Reith’s ‘Handbook to Singapore’ as “well worth a visit, for the Library is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the East, and the Museum...promises to be...one of the finest exhibitions...in Asia.”
