Singapore is one of the best tourist places featuring several majestic monuments and landmarks. The history of Singapore can be best told through the colossal settings and inscriptions. There are many things to see and know. In fact you will not feel stranger for even a single moment as you go there. Every creation from small to big speaks about its history. And the Sun Yat-Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall in Singapore is one amongst them.

The Sun Yat-Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall was previously known as Wan Qing Yuan. In English it means "a heaven of peace in the twilight years." This was a villa owned by an overseas Chinese in Singapore known as Teo Eng Hock. He bought this place for his mother in her old age. And When Sun Yat Sen arrived in Singapore in search of support for a revolution to defeat the Manchurian rule and subjugation by foreigners; in this fight Teo Eng Hock and his mother let Sun Yat Sen use this place. Eventually, Dr. Sun efforts resulted in the success of the revolution. And it was after the success of this revolution, Wan Qing Yuan was entrusted to the then Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce (now Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry, SCCCI). This villa was later on gazetted a national monument and renamed to Sun Yat-Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall by SCCCI.

This monument of Chinese heroism and nationalism is now a popular landmark in Singapore. Its garden features a number of sculptures, such as the stone stele measuring 3.5 metres tall and weighing 16,000 kilograms, the bronze statue of Dr Sun Yat Sen, and a 25-metre long bronze mural. And the two levels of galleries of this villa include:

o Hall of Peace
o Passage of History
o Gallery of Endeavour
o Hall of Wisdom
o Passage through the Eras
o The Singapore Gallery
o The Nanyang Gallery
o The Testament Gallery

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