Museum Open Day (28 - 29 August '25)

Note: Programme is open to NUS Student, Staff and Alumni only. For NUS student and staff, do register for the programme using your NUS email!

We’re setting two days aside just for our NUS community, on Thursday and Friday, 28 - 29 August, from 12pm - 5pm!

Discover the museum's exhibitions at your own pace with our self-guided tours through our specially designed Personality Postcards. Get creative at our DIY card holder decoration booth using stickers inspired by our artworks, and join us for an interactive Heritage Havoc board game session developed by NUS Baba House. Don’t miss our student-led tours, where we’ll guide you around the museum and help you discover art across the campus!

Receive exclusive tumblers, totes, collapsible cups, stickers or postcards when you sign up for our programs or join us for the day. See you at the NUS Museum!

Self-guided tour

Thurs & Fri, 28 & 29 August

12 - 5pm

All day, Walk-in programme

Cardholder sticker decoration

Thurs & Fri, 28 & 29 August

12pm - 3pm, 3pm-5pm

All-day, Registration required

Are you a 'Memory Keeper' or 'Time Traveller?'. Move around our exhibitions and displays through our specially designed Personality Postcards that features selected artworks tailored to your personality! Be sure to collect the stamps at every level to redeem your free gift.*

Feeling crafty? Swing by our cardholder decoration booth and jazz up a clear cardholder with tiny, adorable stickers inspired by the Museum's collection. Best part? You get to take it home as a cute little keepsake!*

*Limited to one item and cardholder per participant. While stocks last.

Heritage Havoc Game Sessions

Thurs & Fri, 28 & 29 August

2 - 3.30pm, Registration required

Heritage Havoc is a curatorial card game set in the NUS Baba House. As a ‘curator’, your goal is to acquire objects based on our real artefacts, and locate them within the space of house to form your own tour or exhibition. Along the way, you will be met with discussion points that allow you and your fellow curators to share your thoughts and ideas about heritage, and challenges that can make or break your exhibition. From other players ‘stealing’ artefacts to ‘havocs’ which can summon floods, termites and other environmental threats that can jeopardise your objects, navigate these challenges and strategise your way into building a successful show.

Heritage Havoc is supported by the Cultural Matching Fund.

A Queer Gaze: Seeing and Being Seen

Guided by Genesis Phan

Thurs & Fri, 28 & 29 August

2 - 3.30pm, Registration required

A Queer Gaze: Seeing and Being Seen explores how artworks and artefacts can be read through a queer lens. Moving through Radio Malaya, the Resource Gallery, and Ng Eng Teng: 1+1=1, the tour examines queerness as both a subject and a way of seeing—challenging notions of visibility, interpretation, and meaning in art.

This tour is only open to participants aged 18 and above. It contains mature themes, including (but not limited to) discussions of gender, sexuality, and interpretations of the human body in art. To ensure a safe and respectful environment for students, organisers, and audiences, recording, screen capture, or any form of content capture is strictly prohibited. By joining the tour, you acknowledge the importance of protecting artistic expression and the integrity of intellectual exchange within this programme.

Public Temporalities: Memory in/and Movement

Guided by Aida Nadirah Abdul Raziff

Thurs & Fri, 28 & 29 August

4 - 5.30pm, Registration required

Public Temporalities: Memory in/and Movement examines public sculptures across NUS, reflecting on their evolving meanings as the University marks its 120th anniversary. Engaging with these works as markers of history, memory, and space, the tour considers how public art shapes our understanding of the past and present.

This tour takes place outdoors across various locations on the NUS campus and requires participants to navigate stairs, uneven pathways, and extended walking distances. Please wear comfortable footwear and be prepared for varying weather conditions, including heat, humidity, and sudden rain. Participants are encouraged to bring water, sun protection, and an umbrella or raincoat. In the event of severe wet weather, the tour may be delayed or cancelled for safety reasons. Participants will be notified as soon as possible in such cases.