SPECIAL EVENT
As part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, as declared by the United Nations General Assembly, this year’s edition of In the Ether invites visitors to explore the invisible rules that govern our world through a series of installations, performances, talks, and education programmes.
Situated across the museum, scientific concepts come alive through poetic and tangible experiences inspired by physics, quantum research and technology. Interact with experiments and activities that explain core principles and reveal the inner working of devices such as quantum computers and quantum communication satellites.
These installations challenge us to rethink the nature of observation, the boundaries of perception, and the potential for research to shift the trajectory of our world.
Whether you're an experienced scientist or new to quantum, In the Ether–A Festival of Quantum Science and Technology invites you to experience the beauty, complexity, and transformative power of quantum – through the union of art and science.
This festival is presented by ArtScience Museum and includes scientific contributions from the Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore.
Location: Basement 2, Circulation
Co-presented with Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), Singapore
Through hands-on activities, interactive videos, and real artefacts brought out of research labs, discover how scientists explore the strange and powerful behaviours of light and matter, such as superposition, where particles exist in multiple states until measured, and entanglement, where the properties of one particle become linked with another. These principles, first described in 1925, continue to shape the technologies of today and tomorrow.
Location: Basement 2, Circulation
Artists: Semiconductor: Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt
Light-in-Flight explores how we might perceive time if it were travelling at the speed of light.
Presented on LED displays, each animation in the series reveals a physical space illuminated by photons emitted in pulses by a laser and captured by a camera designed to detect single photons. The ‘light-captures’ create time-lapse sequences which reveal ‘light-waves’ in motion, depicting space as it sculpts the light.
Location: Basement 2, Oculus
Artist: Libby Heaney
Qlimate Tongues is a multi-channel sound installation that explores the climate, its entanglements and the impact of quantum technologies. In the work, we hear hybrid human and non-human voices that are generated by artificial intelligence and hypnotic sounds that are generated by quantum computing, inviting contemplation on how advance technologies shape and entangle with life on earth.
Location: Level 1, Lobby
Artist: Libby Heaney
Presented in ArtScience Museum’s lobby LED screen against the wider backdrop of the stunning Marina Bay skyline, slimeQrawl invites viewers to dive into the intricate entanglements between machines, life, matter and quantum world.
* slimeQrawl will not be available from 29 Sep – 6 Oct
Location: Level 1, Lobby
Artist: Yu-Chen Wang
We aren’t able to prove that just yet, but we know it’s out there welcomes visitors to In the Ether with a poetic narrative of the recent history of experimental particle physics, establishing parallel lines between individual stories and historical archives, through drawings of hybridised apparatus, meetings with physicists and scientific documents.
Featuring abstract images produced by the 60s Bubble Chamber, Wang's fascination was not just what the photographs captured – the paths of short-live electrically charged particles – but also the process surrounding documentation and interpretation.
This immersive audio-visual ensemble also marks Wang's personal journey of exploration in art and science.
Location: Level 4, Curiosity Gallery
Artist: Amy Karle
Entangled Horizons is a multisensory collection of art inspired by the convergence of quantum concepts, humanity, and the vast expanse of the universe.
Adapted from Karle’s Echoes From The Vallery of Existence (2024), the generative video takes inspiration from quantum principles and imagery to reflect the fluid and ever-changing nature of reality. The work depicts the constantly converging and diverging states of matter through particles, always in the state of motion.
The video work is accompanied by an immersive soundscape that hopes to create a deep, physical resonance, highlighting the interconnectedness of technology, life, and the quantum world.
Karle’s Sketches of Quantum Concepts (2023) further explore quantum experiments and applications, superposition, entanglement, wave-particle duality, and the fine structure constant.
* Entangled Horizons will not be available from 29 Sep – 6 Oct
Image credit: Signals Through the Void, 2023 by Amy Karle
Date: Sep – Oct
Location: Level 4, ArtScience Cinema
Complimentary and ticketed admission
A curated selection of short films, movies and documentaries that dive into the realms of quantum science.
Date: 20 Sep, 2 – 5pm
Location: Level 4, ArtScience Cinema
Ticketed admission
This half-day symposium invites audiences to journey through the fundamentals of quantum mechanics, its artistic interpretations, and its real-world applications. From the multiverse to quantum-safe chips, the programme offers a dynamic and accessible introduction to a field that is reshaping how we understand and interact with the world.
This is the perfect session to begin your exploration on quantum science if you have ever been curious but did not know where to start.
Date: From 6 Sep
Location: Basement 2, ArtScience Laboratory
Complimentary admission
Discover the curious world of quantum physics through easy-to-play versions of Quantum Tic-tac-toe and Quantum Chess at ArtScience Laboratory.
Date: 16 to 18 Oct – Q for Quantum (World Premiere), 20 to 22 Oct – Kamishibai – Ada Lovelace
Location: Level 4, ArtScience Cinema
Ticketed admission
Helming from Austria, Circus of Knowledge has been delighting kids and adults with their traditional puppeteering repertoires that seeks to intersect both arts and science education.
Date: 25 – 26 Oct
Location: Basement 1, The Sun
Ticketed admission
Step into The Quantum Kopi Experience, an interactive adventure where science, puzzles, and theatrical storytelling collide. You and your team are recruited by two rival hawkers, each claiming to know the secret to brewing the Perfect Quantum Kopi — a drink so powerful it excites your very electrons.
Suitable for all ages. Your mission: uncover the truth behind the missing Doctor Quanta, reunite (or divide) the feuding hawkers, and master the recipe for a kopi that exists in multiple realities at once.
Limited spots available. Book now. Your kopi — and the universe — awaits!
Date: 29 Sep – 5 Oct
Location: Various locations across ArtScience Museum
Complimentary admission with registration
Ethereum Singapore returns to ArtScience Museum as part of In the Ether to share their vision of a thoughtful approach to technological acceleration with focus on culture and community.
More details coming soon.
In recognition of quantum science’s profound impact, the United Nations has declared 2025 the international Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ).
This global initiative marks 100 years of quantum mechanics and aims to raise public awareness of quantum science and its impact through events, education and outreach.
Co-presented by ArtScience Museum and the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), Singapore, the fair features artefacts loaned from CQT, interviews with its scientists, and hands-on experiments adapted from Light and Matter, a special exhibition by Deutsches Museum, Munich, in partnership with the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST).
The Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) is Singapore’s flagship national research centre in quantum technologies. Supported under Singapore’s National Quantum Strategy, the centre has nodes at partner institutions and coordinates research talent across the country.
Our partner institutions are universities – the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the Singapore University of Technology and Design – and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research.
We bring together physicists, computer scientists and engineers to do basic research on quantum physics and to build devices based on quantum phenomena. Experts in this new discipline of quantum technologies are applying their discoveries in computing, communications, and sensing.
For more information, please visit www.cqt.sg.
The Cluster of Excellence Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST) is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy and aims to establish Munich as a central hub in the field.
The cluster is a collaboration between two major universities – LMU Munich and TU Munich – and three renowned institutions: the Max Plank Institute of Quantum Optics, the Walther Meißner Institute, and the Deutsches Museum.
In addition to research, science communication and public outreach are core to MCQST’s mission, with initiatives designed to spark curiosity about quantum science across all age groups. A prime example of this commitment is the Light and Matter exhibition at the Deutsches Museum, developed in collaboration with MCQST’s partners.
For more information, please visit www.deutsches-museum.de/en/museum-island/exhibitions/special-exhibitions/light-and-matter.
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