The Chinese Heritage Centre houses the following exhibitions:

Chinese More Or Less – An Exhibition On Overseas Chinese Identity
The Chinese outside China are heterogeneous groups. The Exhibition: Chinese More Or Less at the Chinese Heritage Centre addresses this diversity and poses the question of whether “Chinese-ness” can be quantified.

Through the exhibits in seven different galleries which illustrate Chinese in different parts of the world and across generations, the Exhibition explores what it has meant, at different times, to be defined as Chinese by oneself, by other Chinese, and by people other than Chinese and how the defining of “Chinese” has moved beyond simple categorization.

Grooming Future Generations through Education: Chinese-School Textbooks in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia before 1965
This exhibition hopes to promote a better understanding of Chinese-schools education. In addition, it hopes to impress upon the public the importance of textbooks: Textbooks are more than teaching materials in classrooms; they are also a means to reflect the values of the times, and a channel through which one learns to appreciate the spirit of age.

The collection of textbooks includes those used in Primary, Junior- and Senior-Middle schools, and on subjects such as Chinese Language, English, Sciences, Mathematics, Letter-writing, Civics, History, Geography, etc. Besides the textbooks published by the Commercial Press and the Chung Hwa Book Company, this exhibition also displays many textbooks published in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia that reflect features unique to Nanyang.

Nantah Pictorial Exhibition
This exhibition seeks to capture the spirit behind the founding of NanyangUniversity (Nantah), the first and only Chinese-medium institution of higher learning outside China.

The Nantah exhibition comprises a collection of memorabilia and over 130 archival photographs taken from A Pictorial History of Nantah published by the Chinese Heritage Centre. The photographs tell a thousand stories about hope, idealism, commitment, self-sacrifices and achievement.