23 December 2020 to 28 February 2021
All Access Ticket charges apply
Concession, Group Discounts and Admission tickets are available for sale online here

Journey through more than 60 object highlights from ACM’s collection, personally selected by museum staff and other stakeholders. Learn more about the artworks through intimate insights shared by the contributors. The exhibition hopes to provide visitors and staff alike with an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate our strengths in this time of challenges and disruptions. It also reflects the voices of the many diverse groups of professionals and supporters who work at or with the museum, behind-the-scenes, to bring exhibitions and programmes to the public.

23 December 2020 to 25 April 2021
Singaporeans & Permanent Residents | Free 
Foreign Residents & Tourists | $20 Standard Ticket
Concession, Group Discounts and Admission tickets are available for sale online here

The act of remembering involves both storing and retrieving. Adopting an archival approach, we display historical objects from the Ming and Qing periods within an intimate, contemporary setting. We invite you into the life of the man who collected the objects.

thINK (read "think ink") seeks to not only present, but to evoke personal responses, to provoke dialogues between the past and present, through time and space. Get acquainted with the art of the brush and reflect on issues such as how we communicate, and what we choose to hold dear.

‣ Join in the conversation – share your personal reflections on thINK: Chinese Calligraphy, Connoisseurship, and Collecting via Facebook or Instagram by using our hashtag #thINKACM.

23 December 2020 to 28 February 2021
Singaporeans & Permanent Residents | Free
Foreign Residents & Tourists | $20 Standard Ticket
Concession, group discounts and admission tickets are available for sale online here

Perfect Stranger is a narrative time capsule spanning a vast sea of paper washed in a gradient of words and colour. Each sheet emits a phosphorescence arising from a synthesis of shades unique to, and reflective of its script.

This verbose body of work stems from a distilled collection of texts drawn from a daily Q&A project with a stranger, an Israeli psychologist Zehavit Efrati living in Singapore, in 2016. Every day over the course of a year, the psychologist asked the artist a question, and the artist responded. This exchange between two women grew into an intimate documentary of time, space, and self.

Static yet glimmering, the installation is visually emblematic of the irony and balance in binaries and dualities – between the monumental and mundane, stillness and change, materiality and ephemerality, was and is, hello and goodbye.

Download our family friendly trail to guide you through the exhibition. Select the "booklet" function before printing on A4 paper, then fold the pages in half to make your very own booklet. Bring it along with you to ACM to experience Faith Beauty Love Hope!
Suitable for ages 9 and up.

Print out and have fun with our FAITH & BEAUTY or LOVE & HOPE colouring sheets. The mural is on display at ACM as part of our current special exhibition. You could also colour them digitally. Remember to tag us @acm_sg for a chance to get featured on ACM Instagram. 

Drop-in Craft Activities

Saturdays, 26 Dec 2020, 27 Feb 2021
1–5pm
Free admission to programmes. Safe-distancing measures will be implemented for all onsite programmes.

Visit the exhibition on its opening and closing weekends for drop-in craft activities that will let you take home a piece of Faith Beauty Love Hope – made by you! On 27 February, drop by the River Room at ACM to make your very own woven diary.

Super Saturdays

Saturdays, 2 Jan, 6 Feb 2021
1–5pm
Free admission to programmes. Safe-distancing measures will be implemented for all onsite programmes.

Join us for a mix of onsite and online programmes associated with our Faith Beauty Love Hope exhibition. Drawing inspiration from the show, use art to express your feelings, reflections, and hopes for the future with this weekend workshop series. Make your own face mask, brew your own tea, or just make art – there’s something for everyone.

Visit the museum on 2 Jan to make a memory box with your family, or make an astrolabe inspired craft. You can also join in the fun from home with our digital offering.

Social (Distance) Fridays

Fridays, 15 Jan, 19 Feb 2021
6.30–8.30pm
Free admission to some programmes.

Explore activities that revolve around the themes of our Faith Beauty Love Hope – Our Stories, Your ACM exhibition, from riverboat and gallery tours to intangible cultural heritage demonstrations.

Free admission to some programmes, and enjoy a special $6 admission to Faith Beauty Love Hope during the programme. Singapore's current Safe Distancing Measures (SDM) will be in effect. You will need to wear a face mask and remain in your personal group (max 5 pax). SDM subject to change.

Conversations: Everyone has a Story to Tell

Friday, 19 Feb 2021
3–4pm
Free on FB Live

Hear from a panel with diverse backgrounds – everyone has a story to tell. What’s yours? Join us for this online webinar where we discuss what faith, beauty, love, and hope mean to you in these extraordinary times.