SAM At Tanjong Pagar Distripark – Contemporary Art Exhibition Singapore Art Museum opened in 1996 as the first art museum in Singapore. Also known as SAM, we present contemporary art from a Southeast Asian perspective for artists, art lovers and art curious in multiple venues across the island, including a new venue in the historic port area of Tanjong Pagar.
School Visits (Self Directed)
Educators may self-guide their students between 10.30am and 4.30pm on weekdays, admission fees apply. Bookings must be made at least five weeks in advance by completing the School Visit Booking Form and emailing it to [email protected].
To ensure a smooth visit, we recommend a maximum of 50 students per gallery at a time. Larger groups may need to rotate through the galleries.
Educators who wish to book guided tours may email us at [email protected] for more information, subjected to availability.
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All ticket prices are inclusive of booking fees
1Valid proof of identity (e.g., passport, school pass) must be presented at the ticketing counter to enjoy concession admission.
2One caregiver accompanying visitors with disabilities will enjoy free admission, regardless of the caregiver's nationality.
Admission Policy
What does it mean to imagine a world otherwise?
How To Dream Worlds, the second edition of SAM Contemporaries, brings together six artists whose practices span installation, moving image and materially driven forms. Their works emerge from diverse concerns—body-machine intimacies, the uncovering of dominant and erased narratives, and the politics of cultivated space—each grounded in the specificities of their own research and lived experiences.
The exhibition’s title proposes a reading of these practices, approaching dreaming as a method and form of resistance, gesturing towards other ways of living, relating and perceiving from within the conditions of the now. Some works speculate on possible futures; others dwell in the traces of what was. Many attend to the present, paying close attention to the undercurrents that shape daily experience. These are not visions of utopias but propositions in motion, open-ended and continuously unfolding. Rather than offering solutions or conclusions, they linger in uncertainty and possibility.
As you move through the exhibition, you are invited to journey alongside the artists in asking what it means to imagine something otherwise. Here, dreaming is not about arriving at a final, perfected “elsewhere,” but about staying with the process—the slow, ongoing work of questioning the world as it is, and imagining what it could still be and become.
Find out more here.
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
01 Aug 25 - 16 Nov 25
SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 3, Gallery 3
10AM - 7PM
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Learning Gallery
Art and childhood share a natural connection.
Both involve freedom, curiosity and fearless exploration. Many of us first create art as children, a time when we learn about the world and shape our emotions, beliefs and memories. What if we could return to that childlike spirit, open to discovery and unafraid to try something new?
This second edition of the Learning Gallery invites you to look beyond the everyday. Explore possibilities, experiment with different ideas and materials, and venture outside the familiar. The artworks here span across diverse mediums and explore themes of identity, home, nature and the environment, people and places, space and memory. They ask meaningful questions about life and inspire new ways of seeing and understanding contemporary art.
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EXHIBITION INFORMATION
2 Aug 25 - 28 Jun 26
SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 1, Gallery 2
10AM - 7PM
Free Admission
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