Sesame Street Magical Art World opens its second chapter at Marina Square today, Thursday 1 October, and runs to 31 December at Level 3, #03-153 to 155, near the L3 playground. Marina Square gives out a free 30-minute pass for a S$20 spend from Monday to Thursday, or S$30 from Friday to Sunday.
The exhibition is open daily from 12.30pm to 8pm. Organised with arts platform COEXIST, it fills a run of themed rooms with Sesame Street characters as reimagined by 12 artists from around the world, alongside interactive stations and photo spots.
How the free pass works
Show physical receipts at #03-153 to redeem a pass. Up to two same-day receipts from qualifying shops count towards the spend, and receipts from atrium fairs are excluded. Each visitor can redeem up to two passes a day, and each pass admits up to two people.
There are 11 time slots a day, subject to availability: 12.30pm, 1.15pm, 2pm, 2.45pm, 3.30pm, 4.15pm, 5pm, 5.45pm, 6.30pm, 7.15pm and 8pm. The exhibition opens a day before Children’s Day on Friday 2 October, when the weekend rate of S$30 applies.
Inside the exhibition
- Reflections of Neon: a dark room lit with neon, with a full-length mirror and pop-up words.
- Floral Fantasy: a giant flower installation and pink walls around paintings by Rori Hee.
- Colourful Shadow Play: coloured lights turn visitors’ shadows into bursts of colour.
- Pipe Beats: xylophones to play and pipes to listen into, set among Geoffrey Bouillot’s artworks.
- Infinity Lens: fisheye mirrors that multiply and distort reflections.
- Doodle Wonderland: a wall of Sesame Street illustrations to colour in with chalk.
- Painting Gallery: works by Rori Hee, Geoffrey Bouillot, Arkiv Vilmansa, MAW, Sabek, Sol Felpeto, Super Future Kid, Tatsuhito Horikoshi, Timothy Gatenby, VAGAB, Xizi Liu and Yuya Hashizume.
- Finale Experience: videos on each artist’s background and their Sesame Street pieces.
Each child can pick up an activity booklet with challenges to complete along the route, and finishing it earns a limited-edition sticker of the artists’ work while stocks last. Pieces by the featured artists are sold at the retail counter.
Thermal flask and giant inflatables
From 1 October to 8 November, a S$100 spend on up to three same-day receipts gets an artist-designed 650ml (22oz) thermal flask, in designs by Super Future Kid or Rori Hee, while stocks last. Redemption is for Marina Square App members, one per member per day, and atrium fair receipts are excluded.
Four large inflatables sit around the mall:
- A 7-metre Cookie Monster (original Sesame Street design) at the Level 3 Roof Top Garden, overlooking The Esplanade
- Count von Count by Edgar Plans at the Level 2 Linkbridge Atrium
- Elmo by Jun Oson outside Encik Tan, #02-275
- Bert by Edgar Plans outside Daily & Co, #02-110
Marina Square is at 6 Raffles Boulevard, a short walk from Esplanade and Promenade MRT stations. Roads around Marina Centre close for the Formula 1 race from 7 to 13 October, with details in our F1 road closures guide. Chapter 3 of the exhibition follows from 8 January to 28 March 2027.
