Museums in Singapore

The Red Dot Design Museum sits in a waterfront colonial building on the Marina Bay promenade, displaying an ever-rotating selection of Red Dot Award-winning products from around the world. From consumer electronics to furniture and medical devices, the museum celebrates innovation in industrial and product design.

The Singapore City Gallery is a free exhibition space showcasing the city-state's remarkable urban transformation through interactive displays and a detailed 11-metre-wide architectural scale model of the entire island.

The National Museum of Singapore is the nation's oldest museum (founded 1849), offering an immersive journey through Singapore's history from the 14th-century Kingdom of Singapura to its modern independence and meteoric rise.

The ArtScience Museum is a lotus-shaped museum at Marina Bay Sands hosting immersive exhibitions blending art, science, and technology — including teamLab's permanent 'Future World' digital installation.

The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) explores the diverse cultures of Asia through art, artefacts, and trade history, housed in the elegant 1865 Empress Place Building on the Singapore River.

The S.E.A. Aquarium on Sentosa houses over 100,000 marine animals across 50 habitats representing the world's major ocean zones. Its centrepiece — the Open Ocean habitat — features an 8.3 m tall, 36 m wide acrylic viewing panel, one of the world's largest, with manta rays, sharks, and giant groupers gliding past.

The Peranakan Museum occupies a restored 1912 Tao Nan School building on Armenian Street, dedicated to the culture of the Peranakans (Straits-born Chinese). Ten thematic galleries explore wedding ceremonies, cuisine, religion, and decorative arts through the largest public collection of nyonya beadwork, porcelain, and jewellery in the world.

The Changi Chapel & Museum is a deeply moving museum documenting the experiences of Allied POWs and civilians interned by the Japanese at Changi during World War II.

The Former Ford Factory is a museum set inside the original Art Deco Ford Motor Company assembly plant in Bukit Timah — the very building where British Lt Gen Arthur Percival surrendered unconditionally to the Japanese on 15 February 1942. The exhibition, "Surviving the Japanese Occupation," documents the fall of Singapore and three years of wartime suffering.

The Katong Antique House is a private Peranakan museum run by Peter Wee — a fifth-generation Peranakan — inside his beautifully preserved terrace house on East Coast Road. Every room is crammed with antique nyonya porcelain, beaded slippers, wedding trays, and family heirlooms, offering an intimate look at Straits-Chinese domestic life.