Synopsis:

Celebrate Singapore's 53rd birthday with us at the National Museum of Singapore!

Come dressed in your best red-and-white outfit and join us for a day of fun programmes inspired by Singapore's icons, including exhibitions about our history and culture, live music performances by local duo Jack & Rai, and a showcase of the 15 Shorts film initiative.

Enjoy interactive family-friendly highlights which include a colouring competition, scavenger hunt and craft activities featuring popular national icons, and then round off the celebrations with a live telecast of the National Day Parade at the Glass Atrium and The Salon!

Exhibition highlights include:
• The More We Get Together: Singapore's Playgrounds 1930 – 2030 at Stamford Gallery, which traces the evolution of playgrounds in Singapore, from the iconic dragon playgrounds of the 1970s to today's modern, inclusive and community-built versions.
• Moving Memories, a selection of local mural painter Yip Yew Chong's life-sized murals that feature moments of Singapore's tangible and intangible heritage, such as traditional kopi-making and road-side communal satay-eating, which will come alive through animation, soundscape and projection in Gallery10.
• Glass Rotunda: Story of the Forest, an immersive digital installation of lush flora and fauna inspired by the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings and created by internationally renowned art collective teamLab.
• Singapore, Very Old Tree, an exhibition featuring Singapore's iconic trees captured by renowned local photographer and artist Robert Zhao.

Delve deeper into Singapore's history and culture in other permanent gallery exhibitions such as the Singapore History Gallery, Life in Singapore: The Past 100 Years Galleries, and Goh Seng Choo Gallery: Magic and Menace.

For the full line-up of programmes and activities, visit http://nationalmuseum.sg/our-programmes/programmes-list/national-day-open-house-2018