Senior-Friendly Zoom Tours

Join us on a virtual conversational tour of our permanent galleries and/or special exhibitions from the comforts of your home! Based on a different theme every month, these free virtual tours are conducted over Zoom and give seniors a chance to explore a variety of artefacts from our museum’s collection. This tour is conducted by our museum’s Care Facilitators and is specially designed for seniors, including persons with dementia and their care partners.

NMS Easy Guides

Free, available for download. Limited copies available at the museum.

Keen to explore the galleries but unsure where to start? Or would you like to plan a visit for seniors and engage them in conversations about our artefacts? Download one of our NMS Easy Guides for a fuss-free planning experience and explore two of our permanent galleries on a self-led tour for seniors and/or persons with dementia.

These guides are best used by seniors on their own, with care partners or in organised groups on-site in the respective galleries at the National Museum of Singapore, or as a conversational toolkit with their care partners and/or senior care staff at home or at senior care centres.

Moving Memories: Colour with Yew Chong Video Tutorials

Want to create your own art piece but don’t know how to get started? Join local artist Yip Yew Chong, whose works range from small sketches on paper to large paintings on walls, as he takes you on a journey to explore the old scenes of Singapore that have inspired some of his mural paintings around the island. Using the museum’s Moving Memories Colouring Templates (templates included for download), you will learn colouring techniques using crayons, colour pencils and magic pens to create your own mural-inspired art pieces.

Virtual Tours: Fun Facts about Artefacts

Suitable for inter-generational audiences

How does a new nation create an identity for itself? What was the most treasured electrical appliance among families growing up in the 1970s to 1980s? Find out more in our pre-recorded virtual gallery tours led by our museum's Care Facilitators, and uncover interesting stories about some of our museum's artefacts!

Plants from Our Past: Do-It-Yourself with Ground-Up Initiative

What are some of Singapore’s native plants that can still be found today? Join the team from the Group-Up Initiative (GUI) as they introduce you to a selection of plants from our museum’s prized William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings. Learn about some lesser-known edible plants, make your own pickled watermelon rinds, and embark on a weekly Do-It-Yourself (DIY) project using the plants and fruits featured in this collection.

Tastes of Our Time: Cook with Christopher Video Tutorials

Have you ever wondered what food items people in Singapore used to eat in the past? How were these food items shaped by the trends and cultural context of their times? Join cookbook author and food scholar Christopher Tan as he shares stories and recipes inspired by the cooking styles from the different eras of Singapore’s history. Learn a new recipe each week from the comfort of your home!

All I Have To Do Is Dream – An In-Gallery Theatre Performance

What does the Singapore Dream look like to you and me?

What did the Singapore Dream look like to our seniors who migrated here and grew up witnessing a pre- and post-independent Singapore?

What did the Singapore Dream look like to our seniors who toiled through the days of rapid industrialisation?

What does the 2020 Singapore Dream look like to our retiring and active seniors now?

Two mysterious figures wake up in the National Museum of Singapore on National Day 2020. Both exist to collect dreams – one has the ability to draw out the deeper knowledge behind objects, while the other uses sign language to sculpt meaning in the air with his fingers. With the help of a young museum worker with Down Syndrome, they embark on a journey through the galleries, collecting dreams of the past and present.

This programme was held in conjunction with the 2020 National Day Celebrations.

With Audio Description

*Sign language interpretation, captions and audio description (English) services are provided.

Resources Based on NMS’s William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings