Jointly presented by the National Heritage Board (NHB) and the Museum Roundtable (MR), the annual Children’s Season festival themed “The Night is Young” will from 28 May to 26 June 2022 and aims to provide cultural and educational experiences that will educate and inspire both the young and their families on Singapore’s heritage.
You can expect to enjoy a range of family-friendly offerings of more than 100 exhibitions, programmes and activities by participating MR museums.
Your children will have opportunities to explore museums after sunset at Artefacts Alive!, presented by MR in collaboration with The Storytelling Centre Limited. Held across five Saturday evenings from 28 May to 25 June, families can explore the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM), Indian Heritage Centre (IHC) and National Museum of Singapore through dramatised night-time storytelling and craft sessions, as storytellers regale them with tales of adventure – of majestic birds, royal celebrations, and mischief makers – inspired by each museum’s artefacts.
As part of the programme, you will also get to create a glow-in-the-dark handicraft, tailored to each story and based on the selected artefacts, and take home a memento of your visit to the museum.
Inspired by the abovementioned selected museum artefacts, the three different Artefacts Alive! stories are:
You are also invited to The Gem Museum for a Night at the Gem Museum, held every Friday night from 7pm to 10pm, for the month of June. The lights in museum will be dimmed during those hours, and you can explore the museum and discover mysterious luminescent minerals and gemstones, assisted by UV and LED torches.
Aside from the night-time programming component, 28 museums island-wide will also be offering a slew of daytime offerings as part of Children’s Season 2022. These include IHC’s Enchanting Forest programme which centres on creatures of the forest, featuring a huge maze, an activity kit comprising two craft activities, a diorama workshop where participants can create a Magical Forest Diorama, a guided tour by students of Nan Chiau High School, and face-painting featuring designs inspired by the enchanting forest theme.
In addition, you and your children can head down to any of the participating museums to pick up a Children’s Season 2022 stamp collection “passport” and kick off your journey to collect all 23 uniquely designed passport stamp imprints. While the stamps can be viewed as they are, there will be an added element of surprise as they also glow-in-the-dark under UV light, in line with the night-theme for Children’s Season this year.
Visit here for more information on Children’s Season 2022 and download the programme e-booklet to view the full listing of programmes, as well as view the details on the passport stamp collection activity and the list of all participating museums.
* Museums participating in the stamp collection activity
# Museums offering night-time activities
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