learning materials
Selected materials are available for purchase at www.selectbooks.com.sg.
Retail Price: $2
Running out of time and need some ideas to engage your little ones?
Zip through Imaginarium: Into the Space of Time with this Traveller's Guide and discover what time means to different people and cultures. Suitable for children and the young at heart, use the guiding questions in the Traveller's Guide to explore the worlds that present themselves in this Imaginarium.
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Retail Price: $45
This Excavations Kit offers an enlightening peek into the stories, heritage and characters that have emerged from and around the building that is SAM today. The kit includes a mission file, a set of letters and 'The Book of Mythologies' that will guide you through the discovery of the secrets hidden within our building!
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Retail Price: $20
A small green booklet that records curious events that took place within the building, by alumni of St. Joseph's Institution and museum staff.
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Retail Price: $5
Explore the mysteries of our lands with this trusty Adventure Kit. It comes with a handy Ranger’s Handbook – a go-to guide for all the curiosities you will encounter along your journey; a pair of all-seeing binoculars to map out your paths and a colouring pencil for personalising your kit in any washes of colours you fancy!
Ranger's Handbook (available for sale separately)
Retail Price: $2
Breeze through your Imaginarium journey with this handbook that is choke full of fun insights and activities, plus useful tips on how everyone can be a responsible Ranger of the Earth!
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Retail Price: $2
Travel over the ocean and explore under the sea with this interactive diver’s logbook as you make your way through Imaginarium’s aquatic landscape. Appealing to all ages, the logbook is filled with beautifully detailed illustrations waiting to be brought to life through sketching and colouring by you.
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Have you ever wondered how other people live? Or what happens in their country? Using the clue in the traveller’s diary, take a trip around the Asia-Pacific. Find out more about the history and culture of other people, record your observations and share your favourite memory with everyone! For use in conjunction with the Time of Others exhibition.
Download for free.

Retail Price: $2
School Price: $1.60 (min. order of 20)
Where is your utopia? Follow 3 explorers—Elizabeth, Marco and Utama—as they explore the 4 different worlds in After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art. Suitable for both children and adults, this treasure map will guide you through selected artworks in the exhibition and challenge you to probe deeper. Your journey to utopia begins here.
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Retail Price: $2
School Price: $4 (min. order of 20)
Travel through time and space with this limited-edition passport as you make your way around Imaginarium: A Voyage of Big Ideas. Featuring artists’ impressions, fun facts and leading questions, come discover and explore realms of new possibilities through your very own personalised passport and work your way to being a fully certified citizen of the Moon—a Moonwalker!
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Price: $30
ISBN: 978-981-08-8954-8
Who's Afraid Of Contemporary Art? A Survival Kit is an education kit designed by SAM with Singaporean artist Dawn Ng to introduce contemporary art to children, using detailed, easy-to-use activity plans and teaching aids.
Suitable for children aged 6 and above, the kit takes children through the artist's conceptualisation of the artwork WALTER, exploring the idea and concept of spaces, drawing inspiration from stories and applying what they have learnt to create their own artwork.
The kit contains:
- Information booklet with 5 detailed activity plans
- Picture cards and cue cards
- 1 WALTER colouring book
- 1 WALTER inflatable
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Retail Price: $10
School Price: $20
ISBN: 978-981-07-0802-3
Let's Discover Contemporary Art! With Natee Utarit is an activity book specially designed for children aged 9 and above to discover Southeast Asian contemporary art through interesting information, challenging questions and engaging activities based on Thai contemporary artist Natee Utarit. Children will find out more about painting as an art form and see how it can show interesting ways of looking at the things around us.
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Retail Price: $10
School Price: $20
ISBN: 978-981-07-1028-6
Are You Afraid of Contemporary Art? (Natee Utarit) is a book developed for young adults to discover Southeast Asian contemporary art through interesting information and challenging questions based on the works of Thai contemporary artist Natee Utarit. Readers will find out more about painting as an art form and see how an artist explores the various elements of painting.
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Retail Price: $10
School Price: $20
ISBN: 978-981-07-1029-3
Are You Afraid of Contemporary Art? (Vincent Leow) is a book developed for young adults to discover Southeast Asian contemporary art through interesting information and challenging questions based on the works of Singapore contemporary artist Vincent Leow. Readers will find out more about how an artist can be inspired by personal journeys and events, and see how ideas or concepts are important elements in his creation of art.
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education publications
DEAR FUTURE, Museum Learning in the Digital Age
worksheets & guides
Find exhibition guides and related educational resources here. Resources are listed from newest to oldest.general activity sheets
- Download Youth Day Part One – SAM Hears from Youths
- Download Youth Day Part Two – Activity – Design A Pair of Sneakers
- Download 'A Story through Lines' activity sheet for Preschools
- Download 'Fill Me with Colours!' activity sheet for Preschools
- Download 'What's in a Mamashop' activity sheet for Preschools
- Download 'Now You See It, Now You Don't' activity sheet for Preschools
- What's That Artwork?! ft. 'Singapore Idols' by Jing Quek (for Primary Schools)
- What's That Artwork?! ft. 'We Are Family' by Vicente Delgado (for Primary Schools)