International Museum Day 2009!
When it comes to Singapore, one of the things I value is its effort in promoting family-related activities.
And this year, it has International Museum Day (IMD) celebrations running across 10 days from 23 – 31 May 2009!
And the theme this year is “Holiday Fun at Home!”
An excellent effort to promote a museum-going culture among families and their children from a very young age.
Heaps of activities available (eg. workshops for kids!), and today I’d like to highlight its OPEN HOUSE DAY this Sunday, 31 May, when museums are open to the public for FREE!
[Anya and Vai checking out Asian Civilisations Museum]
A friend of mine, Christine (a mom of two who’s also a very talented children book illustrator!) wrote a very good blog post on International Museum Day. Click HERE to have a read!
And btw, she’d also be doing a workshop with a few other authors as part of National Museum’s special event for kids. The event title is ‘Behind the Scene of Picture Books – From ideas to words and art’ on Saturday, 30 May and Sunday, 31 May, at 10am – 11.30am. She’d host the 31st May workshop! Click HERE to read more about it!
So there you go!
Not much excuse for NOT going out with the whole family and having fun this weekend, yes? *smile*
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Thank you so so much for the mention. I really appreciate it!
I am amazed by what we can do with our kids at the museums. I think I will hang around after my workshop. Let’s catch up if you are there by any chance. 😉
Oops … thanks for the correction!! 😀
It’s fixed now … 😀
Yup, I guess when we’re bringing along a baby, certain places are more ‘suitable’ than certain other places. But for this weekend, these museums are pretty much open to ‘everyone’. So I feel it’s really worth a visit actually 🙂 especially for this weekend, I mean.
The list of places that are open for free this weekend is available on IMD’s website.
Thanks for sharing about the IMD!
Interested to visit the museums but worried if bringing our 10-month old Darius there would be counter-productive? ^^|
Planning to go to the Singapore Art Museum and National Museum since they are more accessible via public transport.
PS: Anyway 31st May 09 is a Sunday. ^^