Originally called the
Empress Place Building, the present day Asian Civilisations Museum was designed by John Frederick Adolphus McNair and built by
convict labour in 1864-1865. Initially intended for use a courthouse, it
was used to house government offices till the late 1980s. These included the
Immigration Department, the Registry of Births and Deaths, and the Singapore
Citizenship Registry.
Subsequently,
the offices moved out and it underwent restoration work as part of the Civic
and Cultural district project. Made a national monument on 14 February 1992, the building’s
neo-classical Palladian architectural style was kept despite subsequent
restorations.
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