From the creative team behind the Bicentennial Experience, a new SG60 Heart&Soul Experience awaits at Orchard Library at orchardgateway from 26 August to 31 December 2025. Open to all for free, the experience brings to life Singapore’s vision for tomorrow through a voyage across our past, present and future.
Highlights of SG60 Heart&Soul Experience
SG60 Heart&Soul Experience uses immersive storytelling and generative AI to create a personalised experience for each visitor. Visitors can create their own avatars based on pictures taken on the spot, be immersed in a wholly sensory experience plus even see what their future self might look like and ask him or her questions!
Here’s what you can expect from SG60 Heart&Soul Experience jointly developed by Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) and the National Library Board (NLB).
UE SQUARE’S COSMIC SPACE EXPEDITION: Have An Out-Of-This-World Adventure!
CARNIVAL OF CHRISTMAS CHEER: Celebrate and Win at Plantation Plaza and Northshore Plaza!
SNOW MUCH TO CELEBRATE: Christmas Fun at The Centrepoint
Boarding the Experience
The usual library gantries transformed into a departure gantry as I arrived at Level 4 where the Orchard Library is located.
After receiving a mobile device that will serve as our multimedia guide, each visitor got a personalised greeting on the digital screens resembling bookshelves filled with books.
The book covers are illustrated by artists with disabilities from Shaping Hearts.
Then we start by creating our avatars at futuristic phone booths. Using Gen AI, the digital librarian asks about our interests, preferred language and I proceed to create a personalised avatar.
Visitors can choose their hairstyles, dressing, shoes, skin tone and also select a few options that would determine their experience later on.
Personally I felt my avatar did not look like me! This might warrant a second visit to SG60 Heart&Soul.
Travelling through “Wheels of Time”
After creating our avatars, we proceeded to another room after collecting our headphones. It was as if we entered a time machine into Singapore’s past.
At first we were at a beach with sounds of the sea in our ears. Then the whole room seemed to be spinning as we saw how we first connected from handwritten letters, corded telephones then digital communication.
Historic milestones are flashed along with the years they happened. From 1800s, we time-travelled to the present after seeing snippets of news and broadcasts of the Japanese war, the split from Malaysia and to more recent happenings such as the pandemic.
It was like a rallying cry to connect and echoed PM Wong’s recent National Day Rally of “WE not me” message. While technology has advanced at a spectacular pace, connecting to one another will always be necessary.
Levitating to “Windows in the Sky”
This is where the time travel climaxes.
Possibly my favourite part of the experience is where we stand in our own circles surrounded by the skies from floor to ceiling – as if I had floated to a divine realm through clouds of smoke.
Images of tomorrow’s Singapore together with our avatars, personalised according to our preferences appear. We explore a day in the future city, on public transport, in workplaces, gardens, housing with all the avatars interacting in different contexts.
Windows in the Sky then ends with a spotlight on each of our avatars and our contributions based on our current jobs. Perhaps one question they could have asked in the beginning was what we aspired to be, so this could be included in the personalised story as a projection of the future self.
Browsing and Learning at Library Superstore
Finally, I visit a “retail” emporium where ideas from the future come alive. This is where I can explore a library of ideas in relation to education, work, food, care and more.
For instance, I learnt in the education section what the future of learning will be like through building blocks of schools of the future. I also tried a game to decipher scams based on the S.U.R.E principle.
Library Superstore has plenty of other digital interactives that are really engaging plus physical books to enjoy at comfortable nooks. Wish I could sit and read the curated collection available but alas this might have to wait till my second visit.
Don’t forget the “Call Me in the Future” booth to ask questions to your future self. It also generates an image of you in the future. It could look familiar or unusual depending on Generative AI’s take.
Curiocity – Singapore’s Transformation and Urban Planning
Don’t forget to drop by Curiocity with your headphones on. A map of Singapore presents various districts that will or have undergone transformation. Use your multimedia device to scan the various districts then tap to read more information.
You can find out what awaits in districts like Kallang, Changi, Southern Waterfront, Bukit Timah and more.
A Newstand? Like Thambi Magazine Store
Head to an installation resembling Holland Village’s iconic Thambi Magazine Store.
It features 61 newspaper front pages, spotlighting key global and local events since 1965. Some of the significant world events featured include the moon landing, 9/11 and the devastating tsunami in Japan.
Depart and Collect a Personal Memento at “Home is a Feeling”
The SG60 Heart&Soul Experience ends with the gift of a personal memento.
Simply scan in your personal devices, then receive a bookmark that has a QR code linked to your personalised trailer of your future experienced at Windows in the Sky.
Non-ticketed Installations, Level 1 Atria of Orchard Central and orchardgateway
Several non-ticketed installations await at Level 1. There is Becoming Singaporean a visual tribute to SG60 with historical figures in colourised archival videos, an orange phone booth 1-800-Future to dial into the future, Time Traveller a generative AI powered photobooth and Windows of Time Photobooth.
For every photo taken at Windows of Time, Tote Board and Singapore Pools will pledge $1 to support charities dedicated to championing mental wellness.
Perks for SG60 Heart&Soul Ticketholders
Heart&Soul ticket holders can look forward to deals such as a free Milo soft serve with every purchase of Nasty Cookie’s SG60 Exclusive Cookie Bundle, free Salted Egg Fish Skin (50g) from IRVINS, and 60 cents off any handcrafted drink at Starbucks. Ticket holders can simply flash their Heart&Soul e-ticket in-store for redemption.
See the full list of deals here.
How to Get Tickets to SG60 Heart&Soul Experience from 26 August to 31 December 2025
Get your tickets to SG60 Heart&Soul Experience from this site. The Experience is open Mondays 9 am to 6 pm, Tuesdays to Sundays 9 am to 10 pm, while the non-ticketed installation series is open daily from 9 am to 10 pm.
Admission is free, access is available on a first-come, first-served basis and runs for approximately 60 to 90 minutes, recommended for visitors aged 7 and above.
