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Madame Tussauds Singapore is a wax museum at Imbiah Lookout on Sentosa, opened in October 2014 as a branch of the London-founded chain. It shows more than 80 wax figures of world leaders, film, music and sports stars and Singaporean figures, along with a gallery on 200 years of Singapore's history and a Jumanji 4D film.

Children's Museum Singapore is a museum for children aged 12 and under, set in a two-storey colonial building on Coleman Street commissioned in 1906 as an extension of the Anglo-Chinese School. The building housed the Singapore Philatelic Museum from 1995 and now holds hands-on, play-based exhibitions about Singapore's past and present.

The Peranakan Museum is housed in the former Tao Nan School on Armenian Street, a building completed in 1912 in an eclectic classical style. Reopened in 2023 after renovation, it shows more than 800 objects on three floors themed Origins, Home and Style, about the Peranakan communities of Singapore, Malacca, Penang and wider Southeast Asia.

Universal Studios Singapore is a theme park within Resorts World Sentosa on Sentosa, opened in 2011. Its rides, shows and attractions are grouped into seven themed areas based on films and television series, from a New York street scene to Ancient Egypt and a fairy-tale castle.

Thian Hock Keng is a Hokkien temple on Telok Ayer Street dedicated to Mazu, the Chinese goddess of the sea, completed in 1842 when the street still ran along the shore. Built with materials and a statue of Mazu brought from China, it has carved roof ridges with dragons and a shrine to Guanyin at the back, and has been a national monument since 1973.

The Indian Heritage Centre on Campbell Lane in Little India opened in May 2015 and tells the history of the Indian and South Asian communities in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Five permanent galleries display heirlooms, jewellery, diaries and family photographs, and the glass facade takes its form from the baoli, the Indian stepwell.

National Gallery Singapore occupies two national monuments in the Civic District, the former Supreme Court and City Hall, joined by a new roof canopy and opened as a museum in November 2015. Its collection of more than 9,000 works covers Singaporean and Southeast Asian art from the 19th century to the present.

St Andrew's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of Singapore, built between 1856 and 1861 to a Gothic Revival design by Colonel Ronald MacPherson and largely constructed by Indian convict labourers. Its white walls are finished in Madras chunam, a shell-lime plaster, and the spire rises above the lawns near City Hall.

The Asian Civilisations Museum occupies the Empress Place Building on the Singapore River, a neoclassical government building first completed in 1867, where it moved in 2003. Its galleries on maritime trade, faith and belief, and materials and design trace the cultures of China and of Southeast, South and West Asia, from which Singapore's communities descend.

Lau Pa Sat, also called Telok Ayer Market, is an octagonal Victorian market hall in Singapore's financial district, rebuilt on this site in 1894 to a design by municipal engineer James MacRitchie with cast iron shipped from Glasgow. A national monument since 1973, it now houses a hawker centre with stalls selling local dishes under its clock tower.

Raffles Hotel is a working hotel on Beach Road, opened in 1887 by the Armenian Sarkies brothers and a national monument since 1987. Visitors who are not guests can see the white colonial façade and driveway, walk the shopping arcade and visit the Long Bar, where the Singapore Sling cocktail was first mixed.

The MINT Museum of Toys is a purpose-built toy museum on Seah Street in Singapore's Bras Basah arts district, opened in 2007 to show the private collection of its founder, Chang Yang Fa. Behind a wave-shaped glass facade by SCDA Architects, four themed floors and a rooftop gallery display toys and enamel signs from the 1840s to the 1980s.

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay is a performing arts centre on Marina Bay, opened in 2002 and designed by DP Architects with Michael Wilford & Partners. Its two rounded glass shells, covered in more than 7,000 triangular aluminium sunshades that earned it the nickname 'the Durian', hold a concert hall of about 1,600 seats and a theatre of about 2,000.

Merlion Park is a waterfront park near the mouth of the Singapore River beside the Fullerton Hotel, home to the Merlion, a statue with a lion's head and a fish's body. Sculpted by Lim Nang Seng and unveiled in 1972, the 8.6-metre figure spouts water into Marina Bay; it was moved to this pier in 2002, and a 2-metre Merlion cub stands nearby.

Sultan Mosque, or Masjid Sultan, is the principal mosque of Kampong Glam, first built in 1826 and rebuilt between 1925 and 1932 to a design by Irish architect Denis Santry of Swan & Maclaren. Two gold-coloured onion domes crown the main prayer hall, their bases set with glass bottle ends, and the mosque has been a national monument since 1975.

Red Dot Design Museum is the Singapore home of the Red Dot Award: Design Concept, housed since 2017 in a glass-and-steel pavilion at Marina Bay that formerly housed the Marina Bay City Gallery. It shows the latest award-winning design concepts and prototypes alongside a permanent collection of awarded products, with a design shop and café.

The ArtScience Museum is part of the Marina Bay Sands resort and opened in February 2011. Designed by Moshe Safdie in a form reminiscent of a lotus flower, it hosts touring exhibitions that combine art, science and technology across 21 galleries, alongside the long-running teamLab installation Future World, films and a VR gallery.

The Marina Bay Sands SkyPark observation deck is on the 56th floor of Hotel Tower 3, at the cantilevered end of the SkyPark that spans the resort's three towers, designed by Moshe Safdie and opened in 2010. From the open-air deck visitors look over Marina Bay, the city skyline and Gardens by the Bay, and a display tells the resort's history.

The Helix Bridge is a pedestrian bridge across Marina Bay, linking Marina Centre with Marina Bay Sands, opened in 2010. Designed by Cox Architecture and Architects 61 with engineers Arup, its curved steel tubes wind around the walkway like a strand of DNA, and four viewing platforms look out over the bay and the city skyline.

Marina Bay Sands is an integrated resort on Marina Bay, designed by Moshe Safdie and opened in 2010. Its three hotel towers are joined at the top by the SkyPark platform; at their foot lie The Shoppes mall, with a canal on which sampan boats carry visitors, the ArtScience Museum, a theatre, a casino and a promenade along the bay.