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Programmes

Explore the programmes of On Paper: Singapore Before 1867.

Last updated 16 July 2026

Past programmes

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Programme listing of On Paper: Singapore Before 1867.

Various dates — 7:00pm	Tour \| Curator's Tour
Various dates — 2:00pm	Tour \| Public Tours (English)
Various dates — 3:00pm	导览 \| 周末导览（华语讲解）
Various dates — 2:00pm/4:00pm	Children’s Workshop \| The People of Early Singapore
24 Sep — 7:00pm	Talk \| Southeast Asian Cosmopolitanism on its Own Terms: Banten as a Precolonial Model of a Southeast Asian Port-city
28 Sep — 5:00pm	Talk \| The Orang Laut in the Realm of the Straits (Negara Selat)
17 Oct — 7:00pm	Tour \| [Special] Behind-the-Scenes: A Curator’s Perspective
26 Oct — 11:00am	Talk \| Early Singapore in the Syair of Dissent: Tuan Simi’s Narration of Local Predicament
16 Nov — 11:00am	Talk \| Early Singapore Through the Lens of Colonial Artists
05 Dec — 7:00pm	Tour \| On Paper: A Special Maps Tour
16 Jan — 7:00pm	Talk \| Thomson's Maps of Singapore
18 Jan — 11:00am	Talk \| Wilkes Expedition: The Remarkable Story of the last All-Sail Naval Squadron to Circumnavigate the World and its stop in Singapore