Creative Recharge: Mars School Holiday Programmes

• Various dates in March
• Various locations at ArtScience Museum
• Mix of complimentary and ticketed programmes

Visitors can gear up and rocket into an action-packed week of adventures during the March school holidays. From embarking on a guided quest with the Museum’s Education Specialist to immersing themselves in the fascinating realm of space travel, the learning does not stop at ArtScience Museum!

Create Comics Mars-terpieces

• B1, The Sun
• 2 & 9 March | 2pm – 4pm
• Ticketed Admission: S$68 (includes exhibition entry to Mars: The Red Mirror
• Recommended age group: 7 -12 years old
• Visitors are advised to pre-purchase tickets online prior to their visit

Join bestselling writer duo AJ Low on a journey through time and space as they work with participants to create comics inspired by our planetary neighbour, Mars! After a tour of the exhibition, Mars: The Red Mirror, participants will learn more about the basics of comics creation and its visual language, before writing and drawing their very own mini comic Mars-terpiece!

Rocket Science (And Art) Workshop by SEDS

• B2, Rainbow Room
• 16 & 17 March | 2pm – 4.30pm
• Ticketed Admission: S$38 (includes exhibition entry to Mars: The Red Mirror
• Recommended age group: 10 years old and up
• Visitors are advised to pre-purchase tickets online prior to their visit

Gear up and experiment with Students for Exploration and Development of Space this school holiday to learn more about the art and science of rocketry – from preparing a rocket launch to how parachutes are used during recovery.

Explore the materials used to build rockets, the basic principles of parachutes, and how air resistance and gravity play a part in the process of launching rockets.

Kids’ Mars Quest tour

• B2, Mars: The Red Mirror Galleries
• 6, 13, 20, 27 Mar, Tue | 4pm
• 7, 14, 21, 28 Mar, Wed | 4pm
• Ticketed Admission: S$5 (in addition to same-day exhibition entry to Mars: The Red Mirror)
• Recommended age group: 7 years old and up
• Visitors are advised to pre-purchase tickets online prior to their visit

Embark on a special quest led by the Museum’s Education Specialist to uncover stories, from past to present, about the most explored planet in our solar system, Mars. Come ready to learn cool facts and take part in fun games and quizzes! After completing the quest, visitors will be awarded with a specially designed sticker.

Exhibitions

Mars: The Red Mirror

• 25 November 2023 – 7 April 2024
• Daily: 10am – 7pm (Last admission at 6pm)
• Ticketed Admission; S$12 per ticket
• Visitors are advised to pre-purchase tickets online prior to their visit

Suit up for an adventure of a lifetime at ArtScience Museum’s latest exhibition Mars: The Red Mirror. This Asian premiere offers visitors a first-class ticket to the Red Planet, condensing 12,000 years of cultural history surrounding Mars.

From uncovering scientific discoveries to investigating the portrayal of Mars in popular culture and science fiction, visitors will get treated to a visual spectacle of over 300 objects – from rare manuscripts and sculptures to historical artifacts, films, contemporary artworks, and an authentic Martian meteorite.

This blockbuster exhibition will unlock the mysteries and wonders behind Mars, and answer some of the biggest questions that surround exploring humanity’s possible future on a hypothetical Planet B.

New Eden: Science Fiction Mythologies Transformed

• 21 October 2023 to 3 March 2024
• Daily: 10am – 7pm (Last admission at 6pm)
• Ticketed Admission; S$16 per ticket
• Visitors are advised to pre-purchase tickets online prior to their visit

Enter a portal to extraordinary new worlds at ArtScience Museum’s science-fiction exhibition New Eden: Science Fiction Mythologies Transformed. A journey through time and space awaits visitors as they immerse themselves in the captivating world of nearly 70 contemporary artworks, artefacts, and films inspired by Asia’s rich history and culture.

As interstellar explorers for the day, visitors can charter the uncharted territories of science fiction to unearth new perspectives on the genre. Explore diverse futures and parallel realities across eight chapters which will leave visitors fascinated and yearning for more.

New Eden pays homage to 24 Asian female artists and collectives such as Mariko Mori and Cao Fei – who are contributing to the diversification of the traditionally male-dominated and Western-centric science fiction genre.

Future World: Where Art Meets Science

• Daily: 10am – 7pm (Last entry at 6pm)
• Ticketed Admission; S$20 per ticket
• Visitors are advised to pre-purchase tickets online prior to their visit

Journey through an immersive world of art, science, culture and technology at Future World and discover thought-provoking ideas and themes behind the collection of digital interactive installations created in collaboration with teamLab, an interdisciplinary art collective.

Future World takes visitors on an exciting journey of discovery through two sections – City in A Garden and a new gallery titled Exploring New Frontiers. Serving as a second chapter to the exhibition, the large-scale artworks within this new space invite visitors to take flight and explore the world above.