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Make with SAM Day
Join us for Make with SAM Day, celebrate creativity at Singapore Art Museum!
Engage in hands-on crafts inspired by our exhibitions and catch the final Singapore Biennale 2025 Family tours before they close. Activity timings and registration details can be found in the full event listing, so register to secure your spot. Experience not required, just bring along your curiosity. Come make something with us!
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[Family-Friendly Workshop] Shrink Plastic, Sea Glass Workshop
[Family-Friendly Workshop] Shrink Plastic, Sea Glass Workshop
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026
Time: 10am – 11.15am or 11.30am – 12.45pm
Venue: Level 3, #03-07, The Main Deck
Free, with registration
Ages 8 and above (with supervision)
Get creative and see how everyday recycled plastic can transform into beautiful, sea glass-like fragments. Inspired by the Talking Objects exhibition, this hands-on workshop invites participants to explore hidden stories in ordinary objects.
Using collected polystyrene containers, you’ll sand and gently heat the plastic, watching it shrink, curl and harden into unique, glass-like pieces. Some fragments can keep their textures while others can be flattened or reshaped—each one telling its own story. You can link pieces together with jump rings to form words, gestures, or simple chains, or let each fragment stand on its own.
This workshop encourages curiosity, creativity and reflection, showing how objects and ideas can change over time, carrying memory and meaning in surprising ways.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the workshop, participants will:
- Experiment with transforming everyday materials into art
- Learn basic sanding and heat-shrinking techniques using polystyrene plastics
- Explore how objects can carry stories and spark imagination
- Reflect on transformation, memory and value
- Create unique fragments inspired by contemporary art
[Drop-in Activity] The Beading Corner
[Drop-in Activity] The Beading Corner
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026
Time: 11am – 5pm
Venue: Level 1, Gallery 2, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Free, by registration
Recommended for ages 5 and up, adult-accompanied
Let the artworks in the Learning Gallery inspire your creativity as you customise your own bracelet or keychain using the materials provided!
Learning Objectives
By the end of the workshop, participants will:
- Reflect on their favourite artwork in the Learning Gallery
- Select and arrange beads to personalise a bracelet or keychain
- Create and take home a meaningful memento inspired by the artworks and their visit to SAM
[Drop-in Activity] House of Longing
[Drop-in Activity] House of Longing
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026
Time: 10am – 12pm, 4pm – 5pm
Venue: Level 1, Outside Gallery 2, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Free, by registration
Recommended for ages 4 to 8, adult-accompanied
Be inspired by Ahmet Öğüt's “nail houses” from Pleasure Places of All Kinds as part of Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention exhibition and Bagus Pandega’s Fabric of the Earth as part of the Elia Nurvista and Bagus Pandega: Nafasan Bumi ~ An Endless Harvest exhibition, where the artist 3D printed houses referencing the 2006 Sidoarjo mudflow disaster which destroyed many homes.
Pick up a house-shaped coin box and design a unique house to deposit your savings for your future or write notes to remind yourself of special memories in your life.
[Family Tour] Singapore Biennale 2025
[Family Tour] Singapore Biennale 2025
Date: Wed, Fri, Sun, 18, 20, 22 Mar 2026
Time: 2.30pm – 3.30 pm
Venue: Level 1, Outside Gallery 1, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Free, by registration
Recommended for ages 6 and above, adult-accompanied
As the Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention exhibition comes to a close, take this last chance to enjoy the exhibition as a family this March school holidays! Instead of the usual, come explore the Biennale to discover new and unforgettable experiences and spark shared conversations at the Singapore Art Museum. Book your tour and enjoy a day of wonder, art and imagination.