ArtScience Museum
There is no fixed ArtScience visit, only whatever is on that month. Choose one show before you choose the day, add teamLab downstairs if the budget stretches, then walk it off along the bay.
- Where: Marina Bay
- Price: S$30–60
Ideas for a day out together.
Check age guidance, facilities and opening times before visiting.

Places only match a date when their opening days are confirmed. Ages are a guide from the venue or organiser where they give one. Typical spend per person, in Singapore dollars.
There is no fixed ArtScience visit, only whatever is on that month. Choose one show before you choose the day, add teamLab downstairs if the budget stretches, then walk it off along the bay.
Contemporary art shown big, in a port warehouse that went from stopgap to home. Worth the bus ride on a wet afternoon; see Maria Taniguchi's Afterimage before 22 November.
Start with the Tang shipwreck: 60,000-odd ceramics bound for the Gulf, sunk off Indonesia and now shelved by the Singapore River. Do that room properly and the rest makes sense.
The world's tallest indoor waterfall is a storm drain with a publicist. Free to watch, better from Basement 2 and the Skytrain than from the first railing.
The pod on top of the tallest Supertree used to be a restaurant. Now it's a 50-metre open rooftop with the whole bay laid out; go at dusk on a clear day, and not in a storm.
A 128-metre walkway slung between the Supertrees, 22 metres up, with a little give underfoot. Our pick over the Observatory on a first visit; see your first light show from the ground.
Until 14 March 2027 the flowers overhead share the room with Elsa, Woody and 21 other topiary friends. Bring a child with a Frozen habit, and save the cave at the end for last.
Until 9 November 2026 the biggest greenhouse on earth is Portugal: 5,000 sunflowers, a lighthouse and a ship's bow. The thousand-year-old olive tree is there all year.
The one conservatory to pick if you only pick one: a 35-metre waterfall, a mountain you ride up and walk down and, for now, animatronic dinosaurs. The best cool hour in Marina Bay.
Kai Kai and Jia Jia are due to return to China in 2027, so go for the pandas now. Then give the manatees in the Flooded Forest longer than you planned; they're the better act.
Jurong's birds moved to Mandai in 2023 and traded up: eight walk-in aviaries, a waterfall and a penguin cove chilled to 8°C. Allow four to five hours and start before the heat.
The world's first nocturnal zoo, lit like moonlight and best done on foot. Walk the trails first, ride the tram later, and book your entry timeslot before anything else.
Pick the Mandai park you actually want and do it properly. Trying to cover them all in one day leaves nobody with energy for the last one.
Pick one Sentosa: beach, heritage, sea life, waterpark or rides. Trying to do three in a day is how a family ends up silent on the way home.
Pick one anchor: Jurong Lake Gardens and Forest Ramble for an outdoor day, or Science Centre and KidsSTOP for a wet one. Not all four in an afternoon.
Ask them first: climbing, experimenting, animals or stories. Then book one anchor activity and leave the rest of the afternoon for snacks.
‘Good for kids’ covers everyone from toddlers to teenagers, which is the problem. Choose the session, route or activity for the children actually coming with you.