Important Information: The escalators connecting Basement, Level 1, and Level 2 are scheduled to be replaced from Feb 2025 to July 2025 and will not be available for use during this time. Lifts and stairs are available as alternative access. Kindly plan and allow for extra time during your visit. NMS apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Free admission is available for the following exhibitions and programmes:

• Mindfulness at the Museum (Permanent)
• Reunion Senior Programmes (Permanent)

Additionally, Wings of a Rich Manoeuvre is displayed in a public space and can be viewed without tickets.

With a history dating back to 1887, the National Museum of Singapore is the nation’s oldest museum with a progressive mind. Beneath its 19 th -century colonial exterior, its galleries adopt cutting-edge and multi-perspective ways of presenting history and culture to redefine conventional museum experience. A cultural and architectural landmark in Singapore, journey through 700 years of Singapore's history and explore over 1,700 historical and cultural artefacts at the museum’s permanent galleries such as Singapore History Gallery, Life in Singapore: The Past 100 Years Galleries, and Goh Seng Choo Gallery. The Singapore History Gallery charts the development of the island as it was known through the years as Singapura, Crown Colony, Syonan-To, and finally, Singapore. Spanning the last 100 years, four galleries in The Life in Singapore Galleries – Modern Colony, Surviving Syonan, Growing Up and Voices of Singapore, present snapshots of everyday life in different decades of Singapore’s history. The Goh Seng Choo Gallery features a selection of drawings from the museum’s prized William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings that highlights the rich natural history of Southeast Asia.