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2023

[Cancelled] Conservation Consultation with Heritage Conservation Centre Conservators

Come meet the staff of Heritage Conservation Centre as they guide you through various tips to care for your own treasures! Book a conservation consultation for a face-to-face session with our conservators about your treasured pieces.

Guided Tour of Heritage Conservation Centre

17, 24 May • 02:00pm • Heritage Conservation Centre

Join us on the Heritage Conservation Centre Tour to get a rare glimpse into the world of heritage conservation. This roughly 2-hour tour brings you behind the scenes to understand the inner workings and behold treasures from Singapore's National Collection.

Home Museum: Collections of Public Transport Heritage

From old bus seats to rare collections of train pamplets, join our two collectors as they share about their collections that are centres around Singapore HeritageFest (SHF) 2023's themes of public transportation heritage.

Indigenous Indian Arts: Silambam

20 - 21 May • 02:00pm • Kalari Academy Studio

20 May • 04:00pm • Kalari Academy Studio

21 May • 10:00am • Kalari Academy Studio

Learn and experience the power and beauty of Silambam - an age old Indian martial art!

Land Sea and Air - A Fun Scavenger Hunt

6 - 7, 13 - 14 May • 09:00am • Children's Museum Singapore

20 - 21, 27 - 28 May • 11:00am • Children's Museum Singapore

Join us on a fun-filled scavenger hunt to discover the various modes of transportation on land, sea and air!

Letterpress Guided Tour - Remembering the Bus Ticket

Remembering the bus conductor, walking through the bus, punching your bus ticket? Join the tour to understand how tickets are printed, hear the printing history and experience the letterpress printing process with the tour.

Mystery Box Challenge – An Imaginative Loose Parts Play!

6 - 7, 13 - 14, 20 - 21, 27 - 28 May • 02:00pm • Children's Museum Singapore

Do you enjoy challenges? Join us for an hour of fun as you receive a mystery box of items and experiment to make something that goes on land, sea or air through loose parts play.

Ride & Discover

Ride and discover Singapore's public transportation history and rich sporting heritage in our everyday commute.

Roam Talk Series: A Brief History of Transport Networks in Singapore's Urban Landscape

12 May • 06:30pm • Rise of Asia Museum

Eisen Teo is a Senior Researcher at Singapore History Consultants Pte Ltd and Chief Curator of Hell's Museum at Haw Par Villa. He also authored Jalan Singapura: 700 Years of Movement in Singapore. Join him as he unpacks a brief history of the intersection of transport and urban evolution. The movement of a people has shaped Singapore’s present – and illuminates its future.

Sport in Singapore: The Rocky Road to Kallang Park

27 May • 10:00am • National Museum of Singapore

Join us for the launch of the Sport in Singapore: The Rocky Road to Kallang Park by Dr Nick Aplin followed by a panel chat with sporting luminaries and heritage experts to discover the intertwined challenges of staying the course along a rocky road to a national icon and the building of a new nation.