Opens 19 May 2026 ✨
Get a behind-the-scenes look at our upcoming exhibition — ‘The Evocative Head: Fragmentation as Language in Ng Eng Teng’s Works’
How does an artist develop a visual language of his own? What imagery does he draw from? ‘The Evocative Head’ revisits Ng Eng Teng’s interest in fragmenting the human body, specifically the head, as a means of developing his artistic expression.
The human head serves as a compelling entry point into Ng’s artistic practice, having been a central subject during his formative years. It reveals both traces of his artistic training and the development of a repertoire of images that he continually revisited and reconfigured. His process of abstracting the human head drew on ceramics, painting, and sculpture, reshaping it through distortion, simplification, and hybridisation.
Student Research Fellowships — Now Open!
The NUS Museum is launching a new cycle of fellowship programmes for NUS undergraduate and graduate students:
• NUS Museum Student Research Fellowship • Alice & Agnes Tan Student Research Fellowship
Both fellowships offer: ✅ A research stipend ✅ Access to NUS Museum & Baba House collections and archives ✅ A dedicated Museum advisor ✅ Opportunities to engage with the Museum’s programmes
Fellows will pursue original research centred on the collections at NUS Museum and NUS Baba House — spanning art, material culture, heritage, and history. This is a unique opportunity to work directly with primary sources and artefacts from the collections.
Deadline: Monday, 18 May 2026, 2359h
For more information, visit link in bio.
Honoured to host a thank-you lunch for Mr Peter Lee, nephew of Ms Agnes Tan and grandnephew of Tun Tan Cheng Lock, in appreciation of his family’s partnership in preserving Singapore’s heritage through the NUS Baba House — one of Singapore’s remaining Straits Chinese townhouses managed by the NUS Museum.
We are deeply grateful for the major gift from the Tun Tan Cheng Lock Trust, which will accelerate our vision to grow the NUS Baba House into a research-driven global hub for Peranakan culture. This partnership will power new research, expand public engagement, and unlock digital access to an extensive collection of artefacts for audiences around the world. Together, we are safeguarding the past and inspiring future generations through Peranakan heritage, education and research. More at the link in bio or at nus.edu/BabaHouseGift.
#NUSImpact #Singapore #NUSInnovation
⏳ Closing 2 May — last few days!
“Continuity, Persistence, Line”: Thinking Through Clay – A Selection of Works by Delia Prvački presents Prvački’s multi-layered, expansive, and experimental artistic practice, with a focus on her work with ceramics. The exhibitions aims to lay the foundation for understanding Delia Prvački’s practice through a selection of her works since the 1990s. Segmented into three sections – The Search, The Unknown, and The Impulse – aspects of artmaking, thematic interests, and ideologies are explored. We hope to see you!
Over a 4-day workshop with Malaysia-based artist collective Pangrok Sulap, students explore how ideas are translated into visual imagery through collective design.
Through the themes of the arts, community, leadership, and sports, students looked for experiences that resonate widely, surfacing familiar sights and moments. These ideas translated into woodprint designs, which will be collaged together for a mural installation at YIH.
Read more in the #linkinbio
#NUSlife #YIHnspire
A little throwback to recess week 🎨✨
Some students spent their break carving murals for the new YIH, and honestly? It reminded us that some of the best memories happen outside the classroom 💫. From carving and printing grand ideas to new friendships — it’s all part of what makes campus life so fun 💙
Here's your reminder to take time off, pick a new activity, and take it slow this NUS Well-Being Day 🍃😌
#YIHnspire #NUSlife #studentlife
👀 Looking for a chance to work behind the scenes in a museum? 🗣️ Good news, we've extended the deadline for application to 12 April!
NUS Museum is offering internship opportunities for 8 students keen on exploring museum work across our Curatorial and Outreach units as part of the Vacation Internship Programme. This programme will offer interns research opportunities, professional skills development, mentorship and immersion into the museum and arts industry. This internship is 12 weeks long, from 18 May to 7 August 2026.
Find out more and apply via the link in bio!
That’s a wrap on Museum Research Week 2026!
From student research sharings to community-led tours and behind-the-scenes insights, it’s been a week full of curiosity, collaboration, and making research visible.
📣 Interested in working on your own research with the Museum? Look out for the upcoming NUS Museum Student Research Fellowship open call - more details soon!
How do we make sense of ‘other’ bodies? What is ours and what isn’t?
📆 1 Apr, Wed
⏰ Various time slots available
Join us for the third and last installation of Partial Bodies, Whole Worlds. This screening features three short films that explore how we make sense of ‘other’ bodies; selves that are not entirely ours but still remain tethered by way of familial ties, external projections, or avatars.
Link in bio to register!
How would one navigate a museum's archives?
The refreshed Resource Library unfolds as a site of study and encounter accessible by appointment, where books, archives, and curatorial inquiries coincide. This introduction brings visitors around the space, flowing through ideas of “reading” and “writing” as ways of encountering and interpreting the Museum’s archives. Join Assistant Curator, Samantha Yap on Day 3 of Museum Research Week, 26 March at 2PM to get a preview of NUS Museum's Resource Library!
Your story of #NUSLife – now in a woodblock carving 💙
Inspired by the themes of Arts, Community & Leadership, and Sports, students brought their campus experiences to life at a woodblock printing workshop organised by NUS and Malaysia-based artist collective Pangrok Sulap 🎨✨ Each carving reflects a unique perspective, and will be integrated into a vibrant woodcut mural that will be installed at NUS Yusof Ishak House, the heart of student life on campus.
This collaborative artwork will join a growing collection of public art across NUS as part of the NUS Public Art Initiative, launched in 2022 and managed by the NUS Museum. Through site-specific works like this, the initiative brings campus spaces to life, sparks connections, and creates opportunities for students to engage, learn, and collaborate across disciplines. The initiative also offers more ways to explore art on campus, including student-led tours of over 40 public art pieces! 👀
Find out more at nus.edu/newsnow or hit the link in bio!
In the photos:
1️⃣ A workshop participant working on her carving of concertgoers at Supernova, NUS’ annual outdoor music and dance festival.
2️⃣ Participants of Workshop for a New Mural @ Yusof Ishak House and instructors from Pangrok Sulap posing with their practice designs and prints on tote bags, paper and T-shirts.
3️⃣ I WAS HERE (2004), Francis Ng, a nostalgic and meaningful installation for many a graduate at Commencement.
4️⃣ Our Heritage (2007), Chong Fah Cheong, traces NUS’ journey from establishment to the present day.
5️⃣ The Last Masterpiece (2001), Ng Eng Teng, a posthumous work consisting of cotton swabs and the artist’s dried blood.
‘Interspace’ began as an experiment to extend exhibitions beyond NUS Museum’s physical boundaries. It treats mobility as more than dissemination, proposing that a structure can possess agency—fostering dialogue, shaping collaboration, and responding to its surrounding site.
Join us this Thursday, 26 March, 5pm at NUS Museum for the Soft Launch of the project. Project Assistant, Aqil Akmal and Artist, Ong Chan Hao @chan.psb will share insights into their design and creative processes, offering perspectives on the methods and approaches behind this collaborative work with the Museum. See you there! Register through link in bio.
Images:
1) Putting together modular display structures of ‘Interspace’.
2) Display cart component of ‘Interspace’.
3) Detail of ‘The Jungle is Still Loading’ (2026), by Ong Chan Hao
📷 by @jonathantyl
