Singapore Art MuseumOpens 27 November
Lost & Found: How We Remember
The final chapter of SAM's Lost & Found project draws on language, oral histories and personal stories to recover narratives that were overlooked.
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November 2026
Singapore Art Museum opens Lost & Found: How We Remember, the project's last chapter, on 27 November. Fear No Power closes at National Gallery Singapore on the 15th. NUS Museum shows NUS Baba House's furniture while the house is restored, and the Science Centre's ONE Ocean, a 360-degree sea safely out of November's afternoon downpours, runs until 3 January.
Editor's picks for November 2026
National Gallery SingaporeCloses 15 November
Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise
Decades of personal and political work by five Southeast Asian artists: Amanda Heng, Dolorosa Sinaga, Imelda Cajipe Endaya, Nirmala Dutt and Phaptawan Suwannakudt. Free.
NUS MuseumFree
Refrain, Reframe – Baba House Displaced
Straits Chinese furniture, decorative arts and architectural fragments from NUS Baba House, regrouped at NUS Museum while the house itself is restored. Moving the furniture out for the builders, at heritage scale.
Science Centre SingaporeUntil 3 January
ONE Ocean: Every Action Ripples
A world premiere built on 20 years of Tara Ocean Foundation research, with 360-degree ocean projections, free-roaming VR and ten walk-through zones.
Red Dot Design Museum Singapore
A Preview of the Future
More than 500 Red Dot Award: Design Concept winners across everyday products, mobility, healthcare and sustainability, with over 100 physical prototypes.
Asian Civilisations MuseumUntil 24 January
Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman Art from the Musée du Louvre
A jade cup set with Myanmar rubies, once at Versailles, leads around 100 Louvre pieces of Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman art. Upstairs, the museum mixes them with Southeast Asian objects to argue local makers reinvented these forms rather than copied them.
Opening in November
Closing in November
- Into the Ocean: Journey Beneath1 Nov
ArtScience MuseumPast
A descent through six ocean zones using rare deep-sea footage and technology from OceanX's research vessel OceanXplorer, from sunlit waters to the abyss.
When Art Meets Nature1 NovNational Gallery SingaporeFreePast
A children's exhibition co-curated with the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, inviting young visitors to explore nature through two immersive installations on environmental sustainability.
Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise15 NovNational Gallery SingaporeFree
Five Southeast Asian artists, Amanda Heng, Dolorosa Sinaga, Imelda Cajipe Endaya, Nirmala Dutt and Phaptawan Suwannakudt, examined through decades of personal and political art-making.
Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 202622 NovSingapore Art Museum
Amanda Heng transforms the Arsenale's Sale d'Armi into a space for rest and observation, using photography, video and architecture built on everyday gestures.
Maria Taniguchi: Afterimage22 NovSingapore Art Museum
Taniguchi's first monographic show, built around her hand-drawn "brick paintings", plus new sculpture and video exploring repetition, time and labour.
SINGAPORAMA by Navin Rawanchaikul29 NovNational Gallery SingaporeFree
A monumental site-specific installation in the Padang Atrium by Thai artist Navin Rawanchaikul: hand-painted billboard panels, video interviews and a travelogue film capturing Singapore's diverse communities.
Also on through November
Lost & Found: Sea Chanty Projectto 31 DecSingapore Art Museum
First phase of a multi-part curatorial project: three commissioned music videos on maritime work songs, exploring displacement, labour and sonic memory.
- Clay & Colour: Ceramics from the Alice & Peter Tan Collectionto 2 Jan 2027
NUS MuseumFree
435 polychrome Straits Chinese export ceramics donated by Alice and Peter Tan, spanning 19th-century Qing kilns to Peranakan tableware and ceremonial wares.
- ONE Ocean: Every Action Ripplesto 3 Jan 2027
Science Centre Singapore
World-premiere immersive exhibition built on 20 years of Tara Ocean Foundation research, with 360-degree ocean projections, free-roaming VR and ten walk-through zones.
- Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman Art from the Musée du Louvreto 24 Jan 2027
Asian Civilisations Museum
100 Islamic-art masterpieces from the Louvre alongside 30 ACM works, tracing the 16th-18th century world connecting the Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman empires with Southeast Asia.
The Evocative Head: Fragmentation as Language in Ng Eng Teng's Worksto 29 May 2027NUS MuseumFree
Revisits sculptor Ng Eng Teng's fascination with the human head as a fragment, from early realist portraits to later abstracted forms, ahead of the Ng Eng Teng Gallery's revamp.
- Learning Galleryto 27 Jun 2027
Singapore Art Museum
A hands-on gallery for exploring contemporary art through curiosity, with works by five artists touching identity, home, nature and memory. Free admission.
- Refrain, Reframe – Baba House Displacedto 25 Sept 2027
NUS MuseumFree
While NUS Baba House undergoes restoration, its Straits Chinese furniture, decorative arts and architectural fragments are regrouped and displayed in a new setting at NUS Museum.
Lai Foong Moi: Crossingsto 3 Oct 2027National Gallery Singapore
A Dalam Singapore focus exhibition on Nanyang artist Lai Foong Moi (1931-1995), examining gender, labour and urban life in 1960s Singapore and Malaya through portraiture, still life and landscape.
Momentary Pulses: Art in the Central Business Districtto 31 Dec 2027Singapore Art Museum
Public outdoor commissions by Singapore-based artists tucked into the CBD's streets and passageways, exploring the district's layered history and rhythms.
Image credits
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- Fear No Power: Women Imagining OtherwiseCourtesy of National Gallery Singapore
- A Preview of the FutureCourtesy of Red Dot Design Museum Singapore
- When Art Meets NatureCourtesy of National Gallery Singapore
- Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026Courtesy of Singapore Art Museum
- Maria Taniguchi: AfterimageCourtesy of Singapore Art Museum
- SINGAPORAMA by Navin RawanchaikulCourtesy of National Gallery Singapore
- Lost & Found: Sea Chanty ProjectCourtesy of Singapore Art Museum
- The Evocative Head: Fragmentation as Language in Ng Eng Teng's WorksMoheen Reeyad, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Lai Foong Moi: CrossingsCourtesy of National Gallery Singapore
- Momentary Pulses: Art in the Central Business DistrictCourtesy of Singapore Art Museum
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