Science Centre Singapore
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.
- Where: Jurong
- Price: Under S$30
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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
Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
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.
- Where: Tanjong Pagar
- Price: Under S$30
Children’s Museum Singapore
Free for every visitor until 12 November while upstairs is changed over, so Level 1 is the whole show. Still book a slot, and expect under-fours to find less to do for now.
- Where: Civic District
- Price: Under S$30
Peranakan Museum
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.
- Where: Civic District
- Price: Under S$30
Asian Civilisations Museum
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.
- Where: Civic District
- Price: Under S$30
National Gallery Singapore
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.
- Where: Civic District
- Price: Under S$30
Changi Experience Studio
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.
- Where: Changi
- Price: Under S$30
Canopy Park
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.
- Where: Changi
- Price: Under S$30
Jewel Rain Vortex
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.
- Where: Changi
- Price: Free
Siloso Beach
Sentosa's party beach: imported sand, beach clubs and a calm lagoon, busiest by Beach Station and emptier the further west you walk. It nearly became Singapore's nude beach in the 1990s.
- Where: Sentosa
- Price: Free
Fort Siloso
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.
- Where: Sentosa
- Price: Free
Things to do by neighbourhood
Gardens by the Bay
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.
- 5 picks
Collections
Make something, try something
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.
- 2 picks