Plastics in Our Lives Interactive Space

Free* | Recommended for families with children aged 10 years and above

Step into a home full of objects. Which of these everyday items contain plastics, and which don’t? As you move through the space, test your knowledge with the interactive info nuggets and Green Detective puzzles, and reflect on the pervasiveness of plastics in your own daily life.

This interactive space is presented by the National Museum of Singapore in conjunction with the Plastics: Remaking Our World exhibition.

*Admission to the Plastics exhibition is not included. Image courtesy of GSM Project.

Participatory Installation: Shore Debris Table

Enter the dining room in the interactive space, and take a seat at the 6-metre long dining table covered with debris from the coastline of Punggol beach. Use steel tweezers to pick out microplastic fragments from the debris onto a plate. Learn more about microplastics from the posters along the kitchen counter, and reflect on plastic pollution and its growing impact on our food chain.

The Shore Debris Table was first presented in 2019 by Singaporean artist Ernest Goh as part of the Ayer Ayer Project.