Programme Highlights at Reunion (June-July 2025)

These programmes are brought to you by The National Museum of Singapore.

Here are some of the upcoming senior programmes that you can look forward to. Please see below for more information.

Experience Reunion Senior-friendly Tours  Saturday 7 June  10.30am – 11.30am  Reunion Social Space, L1  1 Hour | Free, Pre-registration is required	Click here to Register   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.  Check out what some senior friends have to say about our senior-friendly tour!  https://www.facebook.com/reel/647253428135705
Seniors Makan with Seniors  Topic: Joy of Giving  Speaker: Mr Tan Peng Ann   Friday 13 June  12 – 2.30pm  Reunion Social Space, Level 1  2.5 Hours | Free, Pre-registration is required.	Email to Register: yesilas@live.com   Explore the theme of the Joy of Giving with our speaker for this session, former SAF Colonel, Mr Tan Peng Ann, and discuss the topic with other seniors in this session of 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.
Seniors-Meet-Seniors (SMS) Knowledge Café  Topic: Leave a Legacy of Clarity, Not Conflict  Speaker: Dr Raymond Ng  19 June 2025 (Thursday)  2pm-4.30pm  Reunion Social Space, Level 1   2.5 hours | Free, Pre-registration is required	Click here to register  Join us in this quarter’s session of the SMS Knowledge Café on the topic: Leave a Legacy of Clarity, Not Conflict, with our speaker Dr. Raymond Ng, a social entrepreneur and management consultant with global legal and financial expertise. Dr. Ng will bring seniors through DIY will-making as participants learn key legal terms, avoid common mistakes, and get a practical checklist on how to start the will-making process.  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.
Monthly Workshops for Seniors  Workshop: Mosaic Tile Coaster Making   8 July 2025 (Tuesday)  2.30pm-4.30pm  Reunion Social Space, Level 1   2 hours | $17.50 per pax, Pre-registration is required	Click here to register  For the month of July, join us to create your very own piece of mosaic art, exploring different colours, patterns and shapes as you make a coaster inspired by artefacts in our National Museum’s collection!  Create new mementos and memories with us in our monthly senior-friendly workshops as you explore our collection and stories through hands-on activities featuring different art forms.
Makan with Seniors  19 July 2025 (Saturday)  12pm – 3pm  Reunion Social Space, Level 1  3 hours | Free, Pre-registration is required	Email to Register: eleanor@agelessonline.net  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.

Please check out: https://go.gov.sg/nmsreunion for more info about the other exciting senior and inter-generational programmes!