The Battlebox is the site where the British decided to surrender to the Japanese during World War II. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – Admission to The Battlebox, an underground command centre in Fort Canning Park, will be free to the public when it reopens from Oct 3 under a new operator.
Global Cultural Alliance’s assistant manager for content development and partnerships Michel Tan told The Straits Times that the organisation believes the historical site “should be made freely available and easily accessible to the public”.The Battlebox’s corridors and rooms are located about 9m underground.Among its features are a cipher room for decoding messages, a signal room and a plotting room, where the British mapped the locations of friendly and hostile aircraft.
“The experience will bring history to life by letting people be involved in those scenes and not just be passive bystanders reading about history that has passed,” said Ms Tan. The prices of the VR experiences, as well as guided tours of the bunker, will be announced when ready.Referring to Singapore’s fall in World War II, Ms Tan said: “We would like people to draw lessons of leadership and decision-making in crisis from this historical event, to make better decisions today.”
Heritage author and blogger Jerome Lim told ST that the previous cost of admission to The Battlebox was “quite steep”.
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