You may find this article interesting (though very academic), contrary
to what many would typically think about the Changi museum. The entire
article is available at http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j33/blackburn.htm

Dr Kevin Blackburn is a lecturer at NIE, History department, who was my
lecturer when I studied there.

Changi as "POW Heaven"
{13} The occasions for commemoration of the POW experience at Changi in
the postwar years were not grim affairs at which only the horrors were
remembered. There was a good reason for the ex-POWs not to commemorate
such horrors: atrocities did not occur at Changi. Out of the 87,000
POWs who passed through the camp, only 850 died.

Likewise, Lionel De Rosario, a Eurasian POW who was imprisoned at
Changi and worked on the Burma-Thailand Railway, concluded: "when
compared with the life and working conditions on the Siam-Burma railway
work camps and other camps in the East Indies, Changi Camp was more
like a low budget holiday camp".

"Changi became known as the most notorious camp in Asia, and in the
minds of many people in England, Australia, and America, the Changi
prisoner-of-war camp would invoke visions of atrocities, starvation,
bad living conditions and emaciated men. It was the place where
prisoners-of-war were reduced to a physical state more looking like
living skeletons. As a prisoner-of-war, not only in the Changi Camp but
in various camps in Singapore and Siam [Thailand], I cannot understand
how Changi had earned such a reputation. My memories of Changi have
never been unpleasant. Prisoners-of-war in Changi did suffer
deprivation and loss of self-esteem, but conditions were not appalling.
Although food was rationed, it was provided every day. The camp was
also provided with amenities, such as electric lights and piped water,
which contributed to our cleanliness and good healthy conditions."