[DROP-IN ACTIVITY] Fan-tastic Fan

Time: 10AM – 5PM

Venue: Level 1, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Decorate the fan using stamps inspired by artworks from Learning Gallery or get creative with the sticker set from Heman Chong’s exhibition to make a new sentence or a poem!

[DROP-IN ACTIVITY] Build-an-animal*

Time: 10AM – 5PM

Venue: Level 1, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Collect a set of animal wooden puzzle and piece it together to make a sculpture! This activity draws inspiration from David Chan’s Animal Roulette.

*Parent accompaniment required for children 8 years old and below. This activity contains small parts.

[DROP-IN ACTIVITY] Flower Power

Time: 10AM – 5PM

Venue: Level 1, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Brighten up your day and create your own pot of flowers! Choose from a variety of colourful pipe cleaners and get started.

[DROP-IN ACTIVITY] Growing Sponge

Time: 10AM – 5PM

Venue: Level 1, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Collect a circular card from the booth and illustrate your favourite motif. Add colours to the sponge and add water to the parts for it to expand!

[DROP-IN ACTIVITY] The World inside my camera

Time: 10AM – 5PM

Venue: Level 1, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Get your hands dirty and create a camera with using the template provided. Explore through the lens like contemporary artists, Heman Chong and Nguan and rediscover Singapore!

This activity is co-created by SAM Learning and students from National Institute of Early Childhood Development.

[DROP-IN ACTIVITY] Feeling Colours

Time: 10AM – 5PM

Venue: Level 1, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Can you feel colour? Beyond just seeing, our senses connect us to the world – the touch of water, the sun's warmth. These fundamental sensations inspired Beyond Vision’s unique approach to the language of colour.

Join us at SAM to explore the fascinating link between touch and colour. Discover how our environment translates into a vibrant, sensory experience. Create your own tactile colour cards and share your unique colour stories.

[TOUR] Public Art Tour: The Everyday Museum

Time: 11AM – 12PM

Venue: Spottiswoode Park (access path opposite Spottiswoode Residences, 18 Spottiswoode Park Road)

Free, by registration

Join us on an adventure as we explore public artworks of various sizes, mediums and materials that reflect the layered history of Tanjong Pagar, all within the vicinity of Singapore Art Museum (SAM)!

Led by the team behind SAM’s public art initiative, The Everyday Museum, this tour invites you and your family to immerse yourselves in artworks sited at public areas. Get reacquainted with your inner child and gain fresh insight into the artists’ creative processes and develop new perspectives on how we view the world around us. Take time to go outdoors to reflect, spark curiosity, fuel imagination and engage in meaningful conversations as you learn how everyday experiences can be transformed into memorable encounters, through art.

After the tour, continue your day with more art-inspired activities inside SAM where more artworks and exciting programmes await!

This guided tour is suitable for ages 6 and above, children between the ages of 6 and 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Please register for every adult-and-child pairing here.

[TOUR] Meet the Artists

Time: 1PM – 2PM

Venue: Level 1, Gallery 2

Curious about the artist behind your favourite artworks or how they made it?

Join us for a special programme at the Learning Gallery, where you get to meet the artists and ask them all your burning questions. You may even stand to win exclusive prizes during the programme when you participate!

[CURATOR TOUR] Heman Chong: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness

Time: 2PM – 3PM

Venue: Level 1, Gallery 1

Free (general admission fees apply)

Join us for this special curator-led tour of the exhibition, Heman Chong: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

Through the curators’ lens, explore the thematic threads that frame the exhibition: Chance, Fictions, and Infrastructure, and discover how Chong’s artistic practice has evolved in response to an increasingly data-driven, media-saturated and networked world.

[CURATOR TOUR] SAM Contemporaries: How to Dream Worlds with SgSL Interpretation

Time: 3PM – 4PM

Venue: Level 3, Gallery 3

Free (general admission fees apply)

How to Dream Worlds, the second edition of SAM Contemporaries, brings together six artists whose practices span installation, moving image and materially driven forms.

Tour the exhibition with SAM Curators to understand how these works explore diverse themes—from body-machine intimacies and uncovering hidden narratives to the politics of cultivated space—all grounded in the artists’ unique research and personal experiences.

[GAMES] Old School Carnival Games

Time: 10AM – 5PM

Venue: Level 1, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

By donation: $5 per try or $20 for 5 chances

Spin the Wheel
Spin the wheels of fortune and stand to win attractive merchandise from SAM! Prizes include new Learning Gallery pins, tote bags and more!

Kopitiam Hero
Coffee, tea or me? Test your memory in this game where you try to match the different kopitiam drinks! Too easy? Try to spot a kopitiam in one of our on-going exhibitions.

Fancy Gem Toss
Put your aiming skills to the test in this game! Throw the ice gam biscuit plushies into the containers to score.

[GAMES] Don’t Forget the Lyrics

Time: 11AM, 3.30PM

Venue: Level 1, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

How well do you know Singapore’s national day songs? Belt your heart out in this challenge and complete the missing lyrics!

[FREE SNACKS] Traditional Snacks

Time: 10AM – 5PM

Venue: Level 1, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Love old school snacks? Join us for free biscuits and putu piring! Feeling the heat? Cool yourself down with some ice cream cups.