Revisiting history through creative bench designs

The Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum has a floor area of 2,560 square meters with two permanent exhibitions displaying a number of precious historical artifacts. A group of School of Design students upcycled some 50-year-old rosewood chairs into six museum benches that fit harmoniously into the museum environment, being part of the museum’s ‘Seek See Sit! Bench Design Exhibition’ from February to August 2018. The rosewood chairs were collected from an 80-year-old Chinese restaurant that has already closed down. Visitors at the museum can then understand history with a new and interesting perspective through these antique seats.