There is more than one way to experience a museum and campus!

Led by our student interns, our Community-Led Tours bring together personal interests, close looking, and curious questions to uncover unexpected stories across the museum and campus. From art and identity to hidden histories and everyday encounters, each tour offers a fresh perspective on the collections and spaces we share.

Come along, ask questions, and see where the conversation takes you!

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Material Girl: Making Women, Women Making
Guided by Megan Loh Jenya (NUS Law, Year 2)

Date: Wednesday, 16 & 30 September
Time: 2 – 2.30PM
Registration link: nus.edu/nusm_materialgirl

Through paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures from the NUS Museum collection, this tour explores the many ways women have been represented across art and history. The tour will look at questions of labour, identity, authorship, and the gaze, and consider how women have been imagined, depicted, and remembered over time.

Flashes of Memory: An Archival Tour
Guided by Lex Lee and Zoe Zou (NUS CHS, Year 4)

Date: Wednesday, 16 & 30 September
Time: 3 – 3:45PM
Registration link: nus.edu/nusm_memory

What counts as an archive? Journey through gallery spaces and the NUS Museum Resource Library as we uncover stories hidden within books, photographs, exhibition catalogues, and ephemera. Drawing from T.K. Sabapathy’s archives and artworks inRadio Malaya, this tour explores how memories are collected, preserved, and transformed through time.

Basking in Slowness: A Public Art Tour
Guided by Chen Xiangyun (NTU School of Humanities, Year 4)

Date: Tuesday, 15 & 29 September
Time: 4:30 – 5:30PM
Registration link: nus.edu/nusm_slowness

Public art is often hiding in plain sight. Starting from NUS Museum and ending in UTown, this walking tour invites participants to slow down and notice the artworks woven into everyday routes and familiar corners. Through moments of pause and observation, we’ll explore how art shapes our experience of place, time, and movement.