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6 March

Kid-Friendly Exhibitions in Singapore: Where Curiosity Meets Family Fun

Are you looking for a screen-free way to spend this coming weekend with your kids? Do you plan to fill a school holiday day with inspiring learning, exploration, and discoveries? Want to spark your child’s curiosity? Singapore is a true treasure chest of museums and exhibitions designed to surprise, teach, and entertain the whole family – from toddlers who love pressing buttons to teens looking for Insta-worthy photo spots. Of course, there is something educational yet interesting for adults as well. The Newtonshow team invites you to explore the most kid-friendly places and experiences around the city: must-visit museum exhibitions, interactive galleries, immersive shows, hands-on corners, and family-focused venues that turn learning into exciting play. A fascinating journey through our nation’s history at the National Museum of Singapore, a unique cinematic experience at the Titanic exhibition in Singapore, large-scale events at Singapore EXPO – there is so much to explore with your little ones! Ready to plan your next family adventure? Let’s check out the list of kid-friendly exhibitions in Singapore where curiosity meets family fun!

 

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Museum Exhibitions

 

ArtScience Museum Exhibitions

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If you are making a list of the best museums in Singapore, ArtScience Museum Singapore definitely deserves to be put right near the top. This iconic lotus-shaped space is literally designed to spark curiosity. It is where art and science converge and ensure a unique experience. Contemporary art, cutting-edge technologies, and groundbreaking innovations – they all come together to show the visitors incredible masterpieces of art that you won’t find anywhere else.

This art and science museum in Singapore is mega popular among families with kids. The museum is full of immersive rooms, interactive exhibits, and photo zones – so it is great for kids who learn best by seeing and doing.

ArtScience Museum has already impressed its visitors with fascinating exhibitions, like Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Icon, Studio Ghibli Exhibition in Singapore, Mirror Mirror: Journey Into The Mind, and many others. Let’s see which exhibitions you can discover with your kids in this museum today.

 

Current Exhibitions

teamLab Future World Exhibition

It is a colourful, interactive dreamland right in the museum where kids can touch, draw, move, and watch the space respond. Imagine digital flowers blooming underfoot, sea creatures that ‘swim’ after you colour them, and rooms that feel like stepping inside a living artwork. It is one of the most popular exhibitions in Singapore.

  • Exhibition Dates: Permanent

 

Insects: Microsculptures Magnified Exhibition

Have you ever thought that even insects can be real masterpieces of art? And they can, for sure. Insects: Microsculptures Magnified exhibition offers a collection of giant, super-detailed insect portraits with incredible stories that can turn any child into a curious naturalist.

  • Exhibition Dates: Until 10 May 2026

 

NOX: Confessions of a Machine Exhibition

It is a futuristic, immersive exhibition in the ArtScience Museum that feels like stepping into the future. What happens when a machine feels? This exhibition will help find the answer.

  • Exhibition Dates: Until 19 April 2026

 

Tip for parents: pair your visit to ArtScience Museum with a family dinner and spectacular Marina Bay Sands light show, Spectra. It is free and runs nightly. Digital Light Canvas by teamLab at Marina Bay Sands is a must for everyone as well.

 

Children’s Museum Singapore Exhibitions

Children’s Museum Singapore is the first museum in the city created especially for kids aged 12 and below – with exhibits scaled for little visitors and built around learning-through-play. And while it is a children-oriented museum, it is a nice place for adults to get a dose of nostalgia and feel like kids again. All Singaporeans and permanent residents are welcome to explore the museum free of charge.

 

Current Exhibitions

A Voyage Back In Time Exhibition

Take a time-travelling adventure with Captain and WonderBot that brings ‘olden Singapore’ to life. Exhibition’s highlights include ‘sailing’ into Singapore, exploring bustling shophouses, and even a modern neighbourhood area where kids can design their own stamps. Don’t miss The Hidden Chamber: a short immersive theatre show that runs every 15 minutes.

  • Exhibition Dates: Permanent, now till 2027

 

Into the Hawkerverse Exhibition

A deliciously Singaporean journey into hawker culture. Kids explore the past (street hawkers and their stories) and jump into the present and future (dishes, hawker centre design, and fun ‘future’ gadgets).

The exhibition also includes Play Pot – a dedicated play space for children below 4.

  • Exhibition Dates: Special exhibition, now till 2026

 

PLAY + MAKE

It is a hands-on creative zone in the museum where kids explore local food culture through storytelling, crafting, and sensory activities – with areas to make, play, and proudly display their creations.

  • Exhibition Dates: Until 29 March 2026

 

 

Asian Civilisations Museum Exhibitions

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If you are looking for one of the most memorable museums to visit in Singapore with kids, the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) is a wonderful pick. It explores Asia’s cultures through Singapore’s story as a port city. At the Asian Civilisations Museum, you will see how ideas, people, faiths, and beautiful objects travelled and mixed across centuries.

 

Kids-Approved Asian Civilisations Museum Exhibitions

Let’s Play! The Art and Design of Asian Games

A joyful exhibition about games across Asia with playable interactives and fun add-ons like installations and activity trails. Perfect for curious minds that love to touch, try, and explore.

  • Exhibition Dates: Until 7 June 2026

 

ACM & Me

A hands-on, playful space in the museum inspired by Let’s Play! It offers creative mini-activities, a calm corner, and easy learn-through-play moments for families.

  • Exhibition Dates: Ongoing

 

Elegant Sounds: Music, Craft, and the Literati

A multi-sensory exhibition that spotlights the qin/guqin (Chinese zither) and how music shaped Chinese art and culture – with interactive elements and recordings that make it feel calm, immersive, and surprisingly kid-friendly.

  • Exhibition Dates: Ongoing

 

Permanent galleries of ACM absolutely deserve your attention as well.

 

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum Exhibitions

If you have a dinosaur-obsessed kid (or an adult who never grew out of it), this is the place. Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum is the city’s only natural history museum, and it’s home to over a million Southeast Asia-focused specimens and collections. It is so popular among families with kids because the museum is packed with big bones, real nature stories, and instant wow moments.

 

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum Exhibitions to Visit with Kids:

  • A Decade of Discovery Exhibition (until 3 May 2026) – a celebratory time-travel show for the museum’s 10th anniversary – how it began, what it does today, and what’s next.

  • Biodiversity Gallery Exhibition (permanent) – a walk through 15 zones that starts at the beginning of life on Earth and builds up to the diversity we see today. Three giant sauropod dinosaur skeletons, a 10.6-metre Singapore sperm whale skeleton, the famous slice of the ‘Changi Tree’ story, and other exhibits won’t leave the little explorers (and their adults) indifferent.

  • Heritage Gallery Exhibition (permanent) – a smaller, story-rich space about the museum’s historical collections, with standout specimens like the 1883 leatherback turtle and a Sunda pangolin display.

 

 

Madame Tussauds Exhibition

Madame Tussauds is Singapore’s location of the world’s famous chain of wax museums. It is a fun place to explore with kids – and a one-of-a-kind opportunity to take selfies with lifelike celebrities and local icons. Cristiano Ronaldo, Marilyn Monroe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lady Gaga, Harry Styles, and many other celebrities under one roof – it seems like the most iconic exhibition ever.

 

MINT Museum of Toys Exhibition

If you want an exhibition that feels like stepping into a time machine, you can find it at the MINT Museum of Toys. Founded in 2007, it showcases an ever-growing collection of about 50,000 vintage toys and collectibles that will amaze both kids and adults. Explore vintage toys from the 1840s to the 1980s, including pieces from 54 countries. Besides, there is a proud corner of Singapore-made collectibles from local toy factories in the 1950s-1960s.

 

Museum of Ice Cream Exhibition

Museum of Ice Cream is a colourful museum designed for pure family fun and lots of unforgettable ice cream-y moments with your kids. Playful themed rooms, interactive installations, and unlimited ice cream along the way – isn’t it an ideal museum for a family day out?

 

National Gallery Singapore Exhibitions

It is a magnificent art gallery in Singapore that feels welcoming for kids (and genuinely fun for adults too). National Gallery Singapore is a place where history, architecture, and creativity all meet in one impressive space.

Besides its permanent collections of Singapore and Southeast Asian art, National Gallery Singapore is famous for turning ‘museum time’ into ‘family adventure time’ with interactive, kid-first experiences.

 

Kid-friendly Exhibitions at National Gallery Singapore

Gallery Children's Biennale 2025: Tomorrow We’ll Be...

This is the family headline: eight interactive artworks spread across the Gallery, designed for playful exploration and built around feel-good values like joy, kindness, dreams, and love. Download ‘My Biennale Buddy’ guide to help kids navigate the experience like little explorers.

  • Exhibition Dates: Until 29 March 2026

 

Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise

It is a nice option for families with older kids who enjoy stories about people, courage, and big ideas. This exhibition spotlights five Southeast Asian women artists and the way art connects to life, community, and change.

  • Exhibition Dates: Until 15 November 2026.

 

Keppel Centre for Art Education

This is the Gallery’s kidz’ zone – a dedicated art-and-play space created for children aged 4-12 and built around learning through hands-on discovery. Take your little ones and explore a choice of activity areas and learning studios: A Brush with Forest Fire; Illuminate!, Maker Studio, Portrait Gallery, and others.

  • Exhibition Dates: Ongoing

 

Furthermore, National Gallery Singapore has prepared a free, self-guided experience inspired by Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out and Inside Out 2. Kids – and their grown-ups – can follow prompts that connect artworks to emotions like Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Anxiety. This will make your tour of the museum even more exciting.

 

National Museum of Singapore Exhibitions

The National Museum of Singapore is the country’s oldest museum, opened in 1887, and it’s a beautiful place to explore Singapore’s story in a modern, immersive way.

 

Current Family-friendly Exhibitions and Experiences at the National Museum of Singapore:

  • Once Upon a Tide: Singapore’s Journey from Settlement to Global City (until 9 Oct 2026) – a big, SG60-themed special exhibition with immersive sections and interactive elements that keep kids engaged.

  • Singapore Odyssea: A Journey Through Time (permanent) – a multi-sensory ‘time-travel’ experience inside the Shaw Foundation Glass Rotunda, with RFID wristbands that add an extra layer of fun.

  • Wings of a Rich Manoeuvre (permanent) – it is a beautiful installation, a chorus of eight kinetic chandeliers that sway in a choreographed dance of light.

  • A Whale of a Tale (permanent) – an intergenerational, inclusive playground near the museum’s front lawn.

 

 

Science Centre Singapore Exhibitions

If your kids love to touch, test, build, and shout ‘WOW!’ every five minutes, Science Centre Singapore is a must. This hands-on museum has some of the most thrilling, engaging, and inspiring exhibitions in Singapore – and it’s an ideal place for your little explorers to take their first steps into the incredible universe of science. The museum boasts more than 20 fascinating exhibitions and experiences, from Ecogarden and Going Viral Travelling Exhibition to Smart Nation PlaySpace and The Giant Zoetrope.

Currently, the Science Centre hosts the most thrilling dinosaur exhibition in Singapore, DINOSAURS | EXTINCTIONS | US. This exhibition invites visitors to take an immersive journey across 3,000 sqm, with 33 rare fossils and 60 full-scale models, across multiple interactive zones. An absolute must-visit for all little archeologists, history lovers, and dino enthusiasts.

If you are the happy parents of kids aged 8 and below, don’t miss KidsSTOP, Science Centre Singapore’s dedicated Children’s Science Centre. It is a playful, interactive space designed for learning through movement, imagination, and hands-on discovery.

 

Singapore Discovery Centre Exhibitions

Singapore Discovery Centre is a super interactive, family-friendly spot where kids can explore Singapore’s story through hands-on galleries. Families usually start with Permanent Exhibits Gallery – including immersive zones like Sandbox and Through the Lens of Time – then add on fun extras like screenings at the iWERKS Theatre.

 

Singapore Art Museum Exhibitions

Who said that art is boring? Singapore Art Museum (SAM) can’t wait to prove that contemporary art that kids can actually enjoy exists!

Current Exhibitions to Visit with Kids

Learning Gallery

This is your most kid-friendly stop. It’s literally designed to spark curiosity and invites visitors to explore art with a childlike spirit – trying, experimenting, and asking big questions in an easy, welcoming way.

  • Exhibition Dates: Until 28 June 2026

 

Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention

A citywide festival that brings contemporary art into multiple venues and public spaces. An inspiring way to reflect on our history and look into the future.

  • Exhibition Dates: Until 29 March 2026

 

Talking Objects

A very kid-relatable theme: how everyday objects can carry stories, emotions, memories – and become art when placed in unexpected ways.

  • Exhibition Dates: Until 19 July

 

 

Current Exhibitions

Groundseesaw Exhibitions

Groundseesaw Singapore is an immersive media-art exhibition space. It is designed like an immersive theatre that combines overwhelming visuals, original soundtracks, and storytelling.

 

A Look Back at Past Exhibitions

Groundseesaw became an inviting venue for many families to step into the whimsical world of Van Gogh in Singapore through its Van Gogh Inside: Love Vincent. The venue has also hosted big-name immersive art runs like the Monet exhibition in Singapore (Monet Inside), plus incredible experiences like The Little Prince: The Journey of Stars, Alice: Into the New World, and many others.

If you have missed Van Gogh in Singapore, Little Prince, Alice, and other unique exhibitions, it’s worth keeping Groundseesaw on your family ‘watch list’, because their line-up changes and past favourites sometimes reappear. Yes, you can discover Van Gogh in Singapore once again one day.

 

Current Exhibitions at Groundseesaw

Next Idol: Your K-Pop Moment is the current headline exhibition – an AI-powered, K-pop-flavoured ‘playground’ with interactive zones, games, dance moments, and a cinematic storyline.

 

Fever Exhibition Hall Exhibitions

Titanic: An Immersive Voyage

If you love big real-life stories, this Titanic exhibition in Singapore is designed like a walk-through movie. You will walk through immersive galleries with dramatic room recreations, video animations, and touching moments that retell the Titanic’s story through passengers' eyes. The Titanic exhibition in Singapore promises lots of unique experiences that won’t leave you indifferent.

 

The FRIENDS Experience: The One in Singapore

Get ready for a fun, nostalgia-filled photo trip. Step inside iconic recreated sets, explore the world of FRIENDS, and become part of this world.

More Details: The FRIENDS Experience: The One in Singapore

 

Dopamine Land: A Multisensory Experience

It is a bright, immersive pop-up where families wander through playful rooms designed to spark joy. This adventure will be full of colours, light, touches, sounds, and the brightest photos ever.

 

Harry Potter: Visions of Magic

This mind-blowing Harry Potter exhibition in Singapore is a walk-through, multi-sensory experience, where families explore immersive, mysterious corners of the story and use an interactive wand to reveal hidden magical details in the installations.

 

From the buzz around Van Gogh in Singapore to big-scale pop-ups, the city always has something new to discover. And this is still not the end. You can also catch family-friendly exhibitions at places like Singapore EXPO, the National Library, and many others.

 

More Venues Where Family-Friendly Exhibitions Take Place in Singapore

National Library Exhibitions

The National Library in Singapore regularly hosts free exhibitions that bring Singapore stories to life using originals, visuals, and interactive elements.

Current National Library Exhibitions:

  • The Albatross File: Singapore’s Independence Declassified

  • Book Havens of Bras Basah: Curiocity

  • Singapore Alcove

  • Punggol Stories

  • The News Gallery: Beyond Headlines

  • The Rare Collection Gallery

 

These exhibitions are like fascinating storytelling adventures – packed with interesting information, surprises, and fun.

 

Singapore EXPO Exhibitions

Singapore EXPO is one of the easiest places in the city to catch big, kid-friendly pop-ups, lively fairs, and exhibitions. With 10 exhibition halls and multiple flexible spaces, Singapore EXPO is the city’s largest MICE venue. Along with exhibitions, fairs, and international trade shows, the venue also hosts various Singapore EXPO events, like concerts of world-class stars.

Singapore EXPO regularly welcomes Singaporeans and city guests to attend food and beverage fairs, collectible conventions, bazaars, and other events. It also serves as a venue for mega pop-up festivals (like ARTBOX at Singapore EXPO).

Follow the news on upcoming Singapore EXPO events – many exciting things not to miss with your kids are coming.

 

Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Sand Expo & Convention Centre, F1 Pit Building, Changi Exhibition Centre, and the newest IMBA Theatre – they all host various exhibitions that deserve your attention. Follow the news to catch must-visit family-oriented displays.

 

 

Singapore knows how to turn an ordinary day into a mini adventure. Frida Kahlo exhibition, Van Gogh in Singapore, Titanic exhibition in Singapore, Dinos Alive: An Immersive Experience, and many other bright past, current, and future exhibitions prove that Singapore never ceases to surprise its citizens and visitors with unique family-friendly experiences. With so many welcoming museums and wonderful exhibitions, it is easy to keep kids curious, engaged, and excited to learn. So, whether you are planning a quick weekend outing or building a full school-holiday bucket list, keep exploring! The next unforgettable family day out is always just around the corner in Singapore!

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