Gallery afternoons, garden walks, markets and evenings out — ideas for every kind of day.
Places only match a date when their opening days are confirmed. Typical spend per person, in Singapore dollars.
A science centre for 18 months to eight: gears, a dino pit, a pretend supermarket and a slide of nearly seven metres. Book a timed session first, even with an annual pass.
The 1977 building has a year or so left before the move across the lake to a Zaha Hadid home. Go now, pick two galleries and let the children press things.
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.
Take it in order: the 'What is Peranakan?' question on the ground floor is what makes the third-floor jewellery worth the climb. Small, very pretty and open late on Fridays.
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.
Free for Singaporeans and PRs, S$20 for everyone else, open daily 10am to 7pm. The big Southeast Asia wing is shut until late 2027; the two monuments and the Singapore collection are not.
Jewel's paid attraction about the unglamorous side of flying: trolleys, taxi queues and the people behind them, turned into games. Best with children of six and up who like to compete.
The basic ticket buys slides, fog and topiary. The nets, mazes and glass bridge are extras, and the right move is one thrill, not the bundle.
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.
Guns built to face the sea, turned inland in 1942. Sentosa's quietest attraction holds the island's heaviest story, and you enter it through the treetops.
A 620-metre lazy river that drifts past rays, a reef you snorkel through and a coaster that goes uphill. The waterslide half is the ordinary half.
Don't buy everything. Our guide to the conservatory, the viewpoint and the ticket that suit one evening at the Gardens, and what to leave for next time.
A catch-up goes easier with a shared task. Choose pottery or climbing by the kind of concentration you want, and book a proper introduction rather than winging it.
