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National Day Celebrations at the National Museum

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Singapore turns 52!

Join for an up-close session with Jimmy Lam, the author and photographer of Singapore: Country of Many Faces; a live telecast of the National Day Parade with D.I.Y. picnics featuring your favourite Singapore food and new local creations; fun craft activities with our favourite national symbols and icons; music performances on a Red Steinway piano that include sets by William Lim Jr. from popular local band Electrico, and more!

Plus, don’t miss the opportunity to collect special Singapore souvenirs and complimentary National Day Parade fun packs, which will be given out to the first 500 visitors to live telecast – while stocks last!

Highlights

National Day Festival by Laloolalang

12pm – 8.30pm

Come savour exciting, sweet and savoury dishes at the museum’s food festival! Run by popular bazaar and flea market organiser, LalooLalang, the festival will feature 20 stalls, serving up a mix of local favourites like chicken rice and satay, and enticing treats like ‘flying noodles’, burgers from The LAB SG, and giant multi-coloured drinks.

Nutmeg & Clove Pop-up Bar

1pm – 8pm | The Concourse, Level 1

On 9 Aug, it’s happy hour all day at the National Museum! Popular bar Nutmeg & Clove will be setting up a pop-up store, selling specially crafted cocktails inspired by the museum’s William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, at discounted prices. Head down to sample this special menu, featuring cocktails like "King and Queen", made with local flavours and ingredients like mangosteens and durians! Nutmeg & Clove will also be selling an exclusive National Day-inspired cocktail, available on 9 Aug only!

Craft Activities – National Icons Balloon Sculptures, Pop-up Cards & Postcards | National Day Manicure Station

10am – 6pm

Celebrate Singapore’s birthday by creating and collecting your very own unique Singapore keep-sakes! Get your hands on free national day balloon specials – featuring beloved national icons, such as Singapore’s Signature Chilli Crab and Singa the Lion! Visitors will also get the opportunity to stamp and print their own special National Day postcards and pop-up cards.

Alternatively, express your love for Singapore with your very own National Day Manicure! Select your favourite national icon and have Popular nail artists from Kiyone+Lim paint miniatures on your nails!

A Lighter Side of History Talk – Singapore: Country of Many Faces by Jimmy Lam

11am – 12pm

A Lighter Side of History is a programme that celebrates Singapore's diverse multicultural heritage. In this National Day edition, Jimmy Lam will speak about his photo project, which documents Singapore's complex and diverse cultures, peoples and city landscape. The project took him a decade to complete.

Singapore Rhapsodies: National Day Songs on Red Steinway by William Lim Jr. of Electrico, NUS Resonance and Republic Rhapsody

1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm (30 min each session)

Join for this special National Day edition of Singapore Rhapsodies, the museum's free public concert series, which will feature National Day songs and local music performed on and around unique red Steinway piano.

Literary Recitation inspired by the Singapore History Gallery, performed by Haig Girls’ School

4pm – 4.30pm

Experience Ancient Singapore through the eyes of 10-12 year olds from Haig Girls' School as they present information texts, stories and poems that have been imaginatively created based on artefacts from the Singapore History Gallery. Conceptualized through multiple museum visits and specially-created tours and lessons, the pieces of creative writing in this unique booklet present perspectives of the artefacts that will encourage readers regardless of age to take a closer look at this fascinating period of Singapore's past.

National Day Parade Live Telecast

5.20pm

For the first time ever, the National Museum will be screening a live telecast of the National Day Parade. This indoor screening – free of charge – will take place at 6 pm at the museum’s Glass Atrium. Bring your family, and come celebrate National Day as if you were at the float at Marina Bay – but with air conditioning!

The first 200 visitors to arrive for the film screening will also get a free picnic mat from Families for Life! Families for Life will also be distributing free popcorn, chips and packet drinks to families at this event: grab them while stocks last! The first 500 visitors to live telecast will also receive complimentary National Day Parade fun packs, from 5pm at Seminar Room, Level 2.

Installation and Exhibition

Bouncy Ride

10am – 12pm & 4pm – 7pm

Embark on your adventure at the National Museum with bumboat inflatables for young visitors, back by popular demand from Children’s Season (2017) at the National Museum, for one day only!

Moving Memories by Yip Yew Chong

10am – 8.30pm

The National Museum of Singapore presents the artworks of Yip Yew Chong, whose life-sized murals seek to express the romance of “places and moments…that blend sights, sounds, smell and tastes.” Yip’s murals have captured the imagination of those who have travelled to heritage neighbourhoods such as Kampong Glam and Tiong Bahru in search of them.

Savour these moments of our tangible and intangible heritage, such as barbers in back lanes and fortune tellers, traditional kopi-making and road-side communal satay-eating, as they come alive through animation, soundscape and projection in Gallery10, the museum’s new digital experimental space.

Note: all permanent galleries (except the Glass Rotunda exhibits) will also be opened till 8.30pm; last admission is at 8pm. Glass Rotunda: Story of the Forest and Singapore, Very Old Tree will be opened till 5pm.

Credit: image of National Museum of Singapore