National Monuments of Singapore are buildings and structures in Singapore that have been designated by the Preservation of Monuments Board (or PMB) as being of special historic, traditional, archaeological, architectural or artistic value.
The PMB is a statutory board within the Government of Singapore, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, and it has so far gazetted 63 buildings and structures as National Monuments.
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