The National Heritage Board’s (NHB) popular Museum Roundtable Lunar New Year Hongbao Campaign is back with limited edition red packet designs for the Year of the Snake.
From 21 January to 12 February 2025, visitors will be able to collect a set of unique red packet designs at 48 participating museums, heritage institutions and galleries (up from 43 last year), while stocks last. This is a great reason to make a stop at one of the museums and heritage institutions part of your plan for things do to for the Chinese New Year.
Museum Roundtable Lunar New Year Hongbao Campaign 2025: Red Packets at the Museums in Singapore
Each of the designs are individually themed to the 48 participating museums. This means there is good reason to a visit to the different museums around Singapore.
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One of the new museums is the Chinatown Heritage Centre, which has just reopened and is participating in the Museum Roundtable Lunar New Year Hongbao Campaign for the first time.
Other museums that you can pay a visit to include the Singapore Navy Museum, Children’s Museum Singapore, Singapore Maritime Gallery and others.
If you are looking for family-friendly ones to visit, do check out our recommendation of kid-friendly museums in Singapore.
We hear that the Museum Roundtable Lunar New Year Hongbao Campaign is so popular that some of the museums have run out of hongbaos within a couple of days.
Each visitor is entitled to only one complimentary set of red packets per museum or gallery, while stocks last.
The individual museums and galleries may have their own additional collection criteria for the collection of red packets.
Limited Edition Collector’s Box Set
Limited edition Collector’s Box Sets are back!
Each Collector’s Box Set contains two full sets of MR Snake Year red packet designs from all participating 48 MR members as well as a special edition design for the National Heritage Board that is not available anywhere else.
The red packets in the Box Sets will have a unique yellow background which is different from the red packets that can be collected directly at the participating museums, heritage institutions and galleries.
The Collector’s Box Sets will be available for purchase only at Asian Civilisations Museum on 1 and 2 February 2025.
400 Collector’s Box Sets will be available for walk-in purchase on 1 and 2 February 2025 on a first-come first-served basis, between 10 am to 6.30 pm, while stocks last, at the Discovey Room of the Asian Civilisations Museum at level B1.
Each Collector’s Box Set will be sold at SGD $98 nett. A maximum of two (2) Collector’s Box Set can be purchased for each transaction.
The Collector’s Box Sets will not be sold at any of NHB’s other museums or offices.
Giveaways of the Museum Red Packets
If you wish to get hold of the red packets without necessarily visiting all the museums, National Heritage Board will also be organising two online giveaways on the I Love Museums Facebook page.
The two online giveaways on the I Love Museums Facebook page will take place during the campaign period from 21 January to 2 February 2025, and 3 to 10 February 2025 respectively.
Participants will stand a chance to win either a limited edition Collector’s Box Set or a full set of the 2025 Museum Roundtable Lunar New Year red packets.
No purchase or payment of any kind is required to participate in the online giveaways.
Like and follow the I Love Museums Facebook page for further updates on the two giveaways.
Collecting the Museum Roundtable Red Packets
Excited yet to start collecting the Museum Roundtable red packets for 2025?
You can find out more about the Museum Roundtable Lunar New Year Hongbao Campaign 2024 here.
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