Strait of Malacca and Singapore
Guy Deveau2013
The Sand Museum
Fukube-cho, Yuyama 2083-17, Japan
The Strait of Malacca runs between Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. It is an important shipping lane connecting the West and the East and part of the Silkroad of the Sea. The Malaysian port city, Malacca, still has a rich atmosphere of its Western colonial past. Together with George Town, Malacca was inscribed in 2008 as a joint World Heritage Site: Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca. Located Southeast of these old cities at the southeastern tip of the Strait of Malacca is Singapore. Its skyline of skyscrapers is a symbol of the development of modern Southeast Asia.
- Title: Strait of Malacca and Singapore
- Creator: Guy Deveau
- Creator Nationality: Canada
- Creator Gender: male
- Date: 2013
- Physical Location: Tottori City, Japan
- Provenance: THE SAND MUSEUM
- Type: Sand Sculpture
- External Link: http://www.sand-museum.jp/
- 作品解説 / Object Note (Japanese): シンガポール、マレーシア、インドネシアの国々に囲まれるマラッカ海峡。西洋と東洋を結ぶ海上交通（海のシルクロード）の拠点である。マレーシアの港湾都市マラッカの街並みには、西洋の統治下にあった頃の各国の情緒が色濃く残り、「マラッカとジョージタウン、マラッカ海峡の古都群」として、2008年、世界文化遺産に登録されている。これら古都郡より南東に位置し、マラッカ海峡の最南東でもあるシンガポール。街には高層ビルが立ち並び、その姿は現代の東南アジア発展の象徴ともいえる。
- 作品タイトル / Object Title (Japanese): マラッカ海峡とシンガポール
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