Andrew Gn: Fashioning Singapore and the World 27 May to 17 September 2023 Daily, 10am - 7pm | Fridays, 10am - 9pm Asian Civilisations Museum This exhibition presents the fashion journey of Andrew Gn, one of Singapore’s most prolific designers, and celebrates his major gift to the nation. Known for creations that are refined […]
Hop aboard the National Museum of Singapore’s ‘flight’ to discover Singapore with Now Boarding: Experiencing Singapore through Travel, 1800s-2000s, a travel-themed exhibition that traces the evolution of Singapore’s identity as a popular travel destination, through the eyes of those who arrived at our shores from the past to the present. Set against the backdrop of […]
A Roving Pop-up Children’s Bookstore From 27 May to 4 June 2023, 12pm-5pm, Various locations such as Duxton Plain Park, Everton Park and Wessex Estate Free The Everyday Museum, SAM’s public art initiative, has recently launched two new public art trails, Port/raits of Tanjong Pagar: Encounters with Art in the Neighbourhood and Singapore Deviation: Wander […]
Exploring English as the predominant language of political power, LOLLING AND ROLLING is a powerful one-man show that traces the shadow of linguistic imperialism within Korean society, and questions its impact on the “inaudible voice” of the subaltern. Lolling and Rolling takes as a starting point the phenomenon of tongue-tie surgery, an operation performed in […]
Musical Movements is a family-friendly multi-disciplinary concert performance presenting modern and contemporary classical works with a twist! Join us on our journey to explore the adventurous, unique soundworlds from composers of our time, and be fully immersed with interactive dance, animation and theatrics. Featuring works by young local composers Darren Sng and Tan Yu Ting, […]
ME, YOU, THEN, NOW is a self-portrait in movement, video, and words: a performative archive. We are invited to join artist Muna Tseng on a retrospective journey, from her days of being a young artist weaving her web of identity within the urban mythology of downtown New York City (NYC), through to the present with […]
What can a bunch of talkative rice cookers tell us about the past twenty years of Korean history? One day when his electric rice cooker informed him that his meal was ready, Jaha Koo experienced a deep sense of isolation. ‘Golibmuwon’ (고립무원) is an untranslatable Korean word expressing the feeling of helpless isolation that characterises […]
Headline Acts is a fun and informal reading series open to writers of all experience levels wishing to showcase plays or scenes. The only rule is, each work is a short (10-15 minutes) dramatic pieces that respond to recent headlines. For this special SIFA edition of Headline Acts, part of Centre 42's group show SIFA-X: there is no future in nostalgia, we […]
Sunday, 28 May 2023 11am to 3pm Asian Civilisations Museum Free Hello, explorer! Are you ready to set sail? Move along to drama performance and listen to a story about adventures at sea. Get creative in a craft activity inspired by boats found in our galleries!
Join us for an afternoon of stamping fun, based on tangram puzzles! Take inspiration from the various creatures found throughout Rirkrit Tiravanija’s artworks (now showing at our Gallery). Unleash your imagination and create your very own animal prints using geometric shapes – turtles, rhinoceroses or butterflies, anything is possible!
