Moving ahead, the MOE Heritage Centre, which is a part of the Academy of Singapore Teachers, will oversee the development of a repository housing materials on education heritage. The MOE Heritage Centre will also work with schools and other agencies to collect memories of school days from educators and all those who have been involved in education
 
The MOE Heritage Centre (MOE HC) was conceived within the auspices of the MOE History Project (launched in 2006) which had three key initiatives -- the MOE 50th Anniversary Commemorative Publication, a monograph series on Key Policies of MOE and the establishment of a MOE Heritage Centre.

Work on the MOE HC started in 2007 with the setting up of a research team to conduct research, conceptualise a framework and develop a storyline for the MOE HC. The Heritage Centre Unit (HCU) was set up in 2008 and housed temporarily at the Ghim Moh Language Centre before moving to its current site at the former New Town Primary School (Commonwealth Drive) at the end of that year.

HCU was also tasked to collect artefacts and historical information with a view of becoming a repository of educational heritage. In late 2008, since the eventual site of the MOE HC could not be secured yet, it was decided that an interim gallery is to be built within an old disused school building.

The conceptual framework of the interim gallery was finalised in 2008. In early 2009, a Vetting Committee was constituted to nuance and ensure the accuracy of the content of the gallery.
 
The gallery was conceived to inspire those aspiring to be teachers, affirm serving educators and to commemorate those in the service who have come before us. It was also planned to function as a training centre which could contribute to teachers' professional development.

Today, the MOE HC has three floors of galleries depicting five decades of education narratives. Historical artefacts, interactive stations and surround videos collectively evoke a sense of nostalgia and pride in educators visiting the galleries.

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