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MY CHILDHOODC Exhibition Venue National Museum of Children’s Season at the National Museum of 24 May to 3 August 2014 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897 Singapore is back! Titled Masak Masak, the special Daily, 10am to 6pm exhibition centres around the theme of My Childhood Free admission Opening Hours and features familiar playgrounds and larger-than-life Daily from 10am to 6pm games of yesteryear, interactive installations including Till 9.30pm on Fri & Sat, 20 & 22 Jun new works by local and international contemporary artists such as Justin Lee, Anastassia Elias and Guixot Enquiries 6332 3659 or 6332 5642 de 8, and special fi lm screenings. Suitable for ages three to seven, let your young ones play around the Getting to NMS museum and have lots of fun! Another fun programme of By train Bras Basah or MRT station (5-min walk), Children’s Season 2014 is jointly presented by National City Hall MRT station (10-min walk) Heritage Board and Museum Roundtable. By bus Special Weekend SBS: 7, 14, 14e, 16, 36, 64, 65, 111, 124, 128, 131, 139, 162, 162M, 166, 174, 174e, 175 Make time for your young ones this June holidays Fri & Sat, 20 & 21 June SMRT: 77, 106, 167, 171, 190, 700, 700A, 857, NR6, NR7 and join us at the Special Weekend of Masak Masak, 6pm to 9.30pm By car the Children’s Season at NMS this year. Treat the Free little ones to some special fi lm screenings under the Carparks available at NMS, YMCA, Park Mall, Singapore banyan tree at the museum while the more playful ones Management University & Fort Canning Park. can engage themselves with the interactive artworks and installations during the extended hours of the Access and Facilities Lift access, pram parking facilities and lockers are available. exhibition. Have as much fun at the museum before Please enquire at the Visitor Services Counter. school reopens! NMS Online Masak Masak Specials www.nationalmuseum.sg Ice (S)Cream! www.facebook/National.Museum.of.Singapore Our friendly neighbour, Momolato located at the twitter.com/natlmuseum_sg Singapore Management University has created some special gelato ice cream flavours for the Children’s Season at NMS this year. Look out for the pop-up ice cream stall right at the door step of the museum over the weekends in the June holidays and be enticed by the special fl avours — Gula Melaka, Bandung and Black Sesame, which can be served in an old school roti sandwich. Children, it’s ice (s)cream time! An Institution of Food For Thought Food For Thought, the popular casual dining restaurant in NMS that serves contemporary cuisine with a Singaporean twist will be celebrating this Children’s Season with us with a new children’s menu and Supported by complimentary colouring sheets! Pop by Food For Thought for a little blast from the past with your family! FRONT LAWN LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3 PLATFORM Word Out by NUS Design Incubation Centre It’s time for some spelling! Watch how your child gets creative by using body movements to form letters in front of a screen which picks up your every movement.

Rouleaux by Anastassia Elias (France) An eclectic collection of miniature dioramas, Rouleaux depicts different scenes inspired by daily lives, movies and places around Playgrounds on the Lawn the world. In this special collaboration with the National Museum of Singapore, the PERFORM AT PLAY@NMS Opens every Sat & Sun from 24 May to 3 Aug, dioramas created are inspired by the theme 11am to 1pm & 3pm to 5pm Drawings of Sounds of ‘what I want to be when I grow up’. Made by Ludicart (France) Inspired by old playgrounds of Singapore, the dragon and elephant playgrounds will greet out of reused toilet rolls, the artist makes ‘Draw’ yourself a canvas of music in this immersive space with the fl ashlights that are your visitors with a burst of colour when they arrive at the Museum. Let your young ones play to intricate cut-outs of shapes and figures ‘paint brushes’. Select sounds from an audio list and conduct your very own symphony of their hearts’ content at the playgrounds on the lawn! using tweezers and manicure scissors. sounds and light. LEVEL 1 VISITOR MAP SALON GLASS ATRIUM Come and Play Sculpture Scribble by Justin Lee (Singapore) by Guixot de 8 (Spain) e f Come build your dream home with your Using materials recovered from the own imagination using carton boxes in this selective collection community of interactive artwork space! Through this Mancomunitat La Plana, Spanish group d activity, young children will be inspired to Guixot de 8 recreates works by famous c refl ect upon our local way of life and learn to Dadaist artists into interactive and fun be appreciative of what they have. installations that the public can touch and b play with. Old and scrap materials are given a new lease of life through this collection CONCOURSE of works that combines simple physics and Front Lawn creativity. a Larger-than-Life Games i Ticketing & In collaboration with the b Salon i Information School of the Arts (SOTA) c Concourse Lift See your favourite childhood games like Pick-up Sticks and Five Stones in a life- d Platform (L2) Toilets sized scale! Through this partnership with e Glass Atrium (L2) a Entrance Restaurant SOTA students, the public will be treated to a modern take on these games of yesteryear. f PERFORM AT PLAY@NMS (L3) Museum Shop