Children’s Museum Singapore – the island’s first dedicated children’s museum to open in December 2023

The Singapore Philatelic Museum (SPM) has been repositioned as a children’s museum beneath the National Heritage Board (NHB). The museum will open its doorways in December 2023 as Children’s Museum Singapore (CMSG).The museum’s new brand and tagline ‘Start with Wonder’ goals to convey the second of pleasure and discovery when kids go to the museum. Children have a pure sense of marvel about the world round them.

As Singapore’s first dedicated children’s museum, CMSG endeavours to maintain and nurture this sense of curiosity to discover, experiment, and encourage studying by play. This is the inspiration for the ‘Wonder mark’, which varieties the foundation for the museum’s new brand.The idea stems from mark making, which signifies the starting of a kid’s developmental journey in the direction of writing and drawing. It is a sensory expertise kids take part in after they create strains, patterns, or shapes, for instance doodling on paper with crayon, or making patterns in the sand with a stick.

Children love doodling and picture totally different worlds as they specific themselves freely, with out inhibitions. The ‘Wonder mark’ is impressed by this act of doodling, which represents limitless prospects for youngsters, and it additionally acts as a metaphor for marvel, pleasure, journey and progress.The museum additionally drew on the experiences and data of main children’s museums abroad, comparable to the Tropenmuseum Junior in the Netherlands, Frida & Fred in Austria, and Zoom Children’s Museum Vienna.This impressed CMSG in the direction of a child-centred, immersive and multi-sensory activity-based method with themes that join kids to the group.