Monthly Workshops for Seniors

Create new mementos and memories with us as you explore our collection and stories through hands-on activities featuring different art forms.

Upcoming Sessions

Intergenerational Workshop at Reunion – Heritage Food Series

$40.50 per senior adult-child pair (incl. GST)

Singapore’s food heritage comprises a blend of flavours and traditions from our diverse communities. The cooking methods, whether from local communities or brought here by early settlers, tell stories of home and tradition.

Embark on a gastronomic adventure where seniors and children create local heritage food together at the National Museum of Singapore with the guidance of culinary educators. This Heritage Food Series consists of four workshops, each covering different traditional and multicultural recipes.

In addition to the hands-on cooking and baking sessions, participants will also experience how food history can come alive through guided conversations and Touch Museum artefacts such as tools used in the trade.

Upcoming Sessions

About the Facilitators

Yeo Min is a pastry chef and author of Chinese Pastry School, an introductory resource covering the basics of Chinese pastry-making, including its history, key techniques, and food science. Previously a social worker in the field of adult protective work, Yeo Min has a deep interest in the potential of heritage food in therapeutic work with seniors.

Emily Yeo stands at the forefront of culinary edutainment in Singapore. She pioneered the wave of culinary programmes among children locally since 2013, and continues to grow and evolve her cooking studio, The Little Things. Using the universal language of food, Emily believes in educating children and families about our heritage and beyond. She is the author of The Little Book of Singapore Food Illustrated.

Waves of Wisdom: A Human Library Experience

In celebration of SG60, Waves of Wisdom invites you to step into an intimate storytelling experience, where seniors are celebrated as living "books", sharing their powerful stories of resilience, reinvention and quiet courage. From urban beekeepers to late-blooming entrepreneurs, to a substance use survivor and community leader living with dementia, each session offers a rare opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations and uncover the wisdom shaped by time. Join us as Reunion Social Space transforms into a library, and be part of this special one-of-a-kind event honouring the voices that have shaped our past and continue to inspire our future.

This programme is brought to you jointly by NMS, SUSS, and Ageless Online. Registration link coming soon.

Experience Reunion Senior-friendly Tours

Experience Reunion at the National Museum of Singapore through a facilitated programme for seniors!

Explore the Singapore History Gallery through a conversational tour and discover Reunion, the museum's social space for seniors, with our Care Facilitator volunteers. Engage with the museum's handling objects in the activity area and look forward to creating your own digital exhibition at our Memory Lane immersive interactive experience.

The tours are led by our museum's Care Facilitator volunteers, who are trained to engage with seniors, including persons with dementia. These tours are conversational in nature and their themes vary every month.

*Each registration is for 1 senior (including persons with dementia) and an accompanying caregiver. Standard admission charges to our galleries will apply for non-Singaporeans and non-Permanent Residents.

Gather at Reunion – A Self-Facilitated Programme for Seniors

Groups are welcome to organise self-facilitated senior-/dementia-/Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)-centric activities in the activity space within Reunion. Each self-facilitated programme is 2 hours in duration and will include:

• The use of Memory Lane, an immersive interactive experience for seniors to curate their own digital exhibition and send a copy of their completed exhibition to themselves as a souvenir, and
• Heritage-based resources (e.g. NMS Easy Guides, NHB Conversation Starter Kits) that can be used to spark conversations inspired by artefacts from the National Collection.

Booking must be made with a minimum lead time of 21 days before the intended programme date.

Each programme booking is subject to a minimum capacity of 20 persons and maximum capacity of 50 persons.

For groups comprising fewer than 20 persons, a minimum charge of $218 (inclusive of GST) is applicable based on the minimum capacity of 20 persons.

Meet Me at Reunion

SGD 16.35/pax

Come and experience Reunion at the National Museum of Singapore through a facilitated programme for seniors!

In this 1.5 hour session, participants will get to enjoy some familiar tunes at the music booths or a conversation while engaging with the museum's handling objects in the activity area. You can also look forward to creating your own digital exhibition with the museum's Care Facilitator volunteers.

This programme is designed for seniors, including those living with mild cognitive impairment and dementia. All seniors living with dementia, or any other additional needs, should be accompanied by a caregiver for the programme. Light refreshments will be provided for all ticket holders.

Booking must be made with a minimum lead time of 1 month before the intended programme date. Each programme booking is subject to a minimum capacity of 8 persons and maximum capacity of 30 persons.

Makan with Seniors

Makan with Seniors is a community initiative started in 2018 by Ms Eleanor Yap, the founder of Ageless Online, aimed at bridging the gap between seniors and youth by encouraging conversations over their favourite meals. With support from the National Museum of Singapore, Makan with Seniors is now offered as a regular bi-monthly programme at the museum's Reunion social space. In each 3-hour session, senior and youth participants will be paired up or grouped together to chat over a meal. Conversations will be facilitated by a "menu" of questions for seniors to answer, ranging from their memories of past events to their growing-up years.

Check this space for updates about the upcoming Makan with Seniors programme.

Sign-ups will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Seniors-Meet-Seniors (SMS) Knowledge Café

Organised by Thomas Kuan and Carol Kuan, the Singapore chapter of University of Third Age, SMS Knowledge Café is a place where seniors meet to have fun and productive conversations, learn from each other, and make better sense of living in an urban community. The objective of the SMS Knowledge Café is to encourage peer-led discussions and learning in small groups for seniors.

SMS Knowledge Café is supported by the National Museum of Singapore. Check this space for updates.

Upcoming Sessions for 2025

Seniors Makan with Seniors

Seniors Makan with Seniors is a spinoff of Makan with Seniors by Eleanor Yap and is organised by seniors for seniors. The programme aims to have seniors come as strangers and leave as friends, to allow for room for conversations. With support from the National Museum of Singapore, Seniors Makan with Seniors is now offered as a regular bi-monthly programme at the museum's Reunion social space. In each 2.5-hour session, senior participants will come together to chat over their self-brought meals. A preselected topic relevant to senior lifestyles and issues will be tabled to stimulate group discussions and individual sharing.

Refresh and Reconnect!

This signature 6-week long programme is held over 6 consecutive weeks and lasts about 2 hours per session. The programme seeks to encourage new learning among participants, while leveraging the museum's collection to spark reminiscing conversations.

This programme is set within a curriculum where each of the 6 sessions includes guided gallery tours led by our museum's Care Facilitator volunteers, followed by artist-led hands-on activities based on various art forms (e.g. music and movement, craft, stortelling). This programme is open to all seniors, in particular those living with dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairments.

Programme Runs in 2025 are part of our ongoing research with Duke-NUS. The runs are currently opened for organised groups/organisations only. Please contact us for more details.

Tea Dance for Seniors

Discover the enriching benefits of dancing – engage your muscles, refine your coordination, and foster connections with others. Join us for an afternoon of dance at the Tea Dance for Seniors. Organised by Dementia & Co’s co-founder, Alison Lim, this programme is designed to cater to the needs of persons living with dementia, but it is open to everyone.

Tea Dance for Seniors is supported by the National Museum of Singapore and now offered as a regular monthly programme at the museum’s Reunion social space.

Sign-ups will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Memories Café

Join our dedicated programme for persons with dementia to interact and bond with their caregivers in a safe, supportive and conducive space. Memories Café at Reunion offers a fresh change of environment to caregivers who may have long been attending support groups held in more formal, clinical settings, such as dementia day care centres.

Each Memories Café programme is typically 2 hours long. The first hour focuses on engagement activities such as sing-along sessions and enjoying musical, puppet and drama performances by community artists, volunteers and staff. The second hour is designed for social interaction among persons with dementia, caregivers and customers accompanied by drinks and snacks courtesy of Café Brera.