Singapore West Central Region

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Jurong Lake Gardens

Jurong Lake Gardens is Singapore’s third national garden and the first in the heartlands. Situated within the Jurong Lake District, this 90-hectare green oasis comprises the Lakeside Garden, Chinese and Japanese Gardens. Envisioned to be a peoples' garden, families and the community can come together to experience these specially curated thematic gardens in the heart of Jurong.

Jurong Lake Gardens Map

Source: https://juronglakegardens.nparks.gov.sg/maps-and-trails/ Jurong Lake Gardens comprises Chinese Garden, Japanese Garden and Lakeside Garden, with each offering a range of community spaces and activities amidst lush greenery and nature for all to enjoy. Admission is free. Opening Hours: Chinese Garden 5.30 am to 12 am Japanese Garden 5.30 am to 12 am Lakeside Garden 24 hours

Key Zones in Lakeside Garden

• Lanchar Bridge
• ABC Waters
• Entrance Pavilion
• Forest Ramble (Nature Playgarden)
• Butterfly Maze
• Therapeutic Garden
• The Logs Trail
• Grasslands
• The Lone Tree
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Key Zones in Japanese Garden

• Floral Garden
• Sunken Garden
• Windchime Terrace
• Moonrise Bridge
• Silver Moon Terrace
• Floral Ridge
• Water Lily Pavilion
• Breathing Gallery
• Water Lily Garden
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Key Zones in Chinese Garden

• Bamboo Grove and Waterfall
• Bonsai Garden
• Confucius
• Edible Garde
• Twin Pagoda
• Water Wall Court
• Cloud Pagoda
• Harvest Moon Terrace
• Double Beauty Bridge
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Science Centre Singapore

Group of Attractions

Source: https://www.science.edu.sg/home

• SCIENCE CENTRE SINGAPORE
• KidsSTOP
• SNOW CITY
• OMNI-THEATRE

Science Centre Singapore

Blow your mind at this award-winning attraction – find out about phobias, aerospace, butterfly survival and more!

Map

Interactive Map: https://www.science.edu.sg/visit-us/gallery-map

Visit-Planner

Exhibitions

Source: https://www.science.edu.sg/whats-on
https://www.science.edu.sg/whats-on/exhibitions
https://www.science.edu.sg/whats-on/shows-demonstrations
https://www.science.edu.sg/whats-on/workshops-activities

• Atrium
  • Energy Titans Show
    The show will showcase the history of humanity's discovery and use of Electrical Energy through a series of live demonstrations. At the show, guests can expect spectacular lightning arc displays that also produce music, and a Faraday cage Challenge, involving live audience participation. It's guaranteed to be explosive and not for the faint hearted! 12pm & 4pm* (Duration: ~15mins) 4pm shows only run on weekends, school & public holidays.
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• Hall A
  • The Giant Zoetrope
    Watch the giant zoetrope seem to come to life before your very eyes!
  • Professor Crackitt's Light Fantastic Mirror Maze
    Can you get through Professor Crackitts maze of infinite reflections and endless hallways.
  • Laser Maze Challenge ($$$)
    Harness your inner Ninja and test your reflexes in a field of laser beams!
  • Urban Mutations
    Explore the changing face of cities. What is your city like? What kind of cities do we want?
  • Some Call It Science
    Step into a space where curiosity is your superpower, asking questions is encouraged and experimentation is a must. Some Call It Science is more than just an exhibition—it’s an invitation to explore, wonder and play your way to new discoveries.
  • SAVAGE GARDEN
    Journey through a whimsical village inhabited by a group of extraordinary plants – Carnivorous Plants! Meet with the natives and explore their homes to unveil their lives, special abilities, and usual dining habits…!
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• The Annexe Foyer
  • Escape @ Science Centre ($$$)
    Step into E.S.C., Singapore's most exciting escape room, which offers immersive experiences from ball-filled enclosures to quaking floors.
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• Maxwell Auditorium
  • Elemental Detectives ($$$)
    A metal has gone missing in Periodic City and there is a prime suspect – Arsenic Grey. Two detectives, Waters and Neon, must solve the murder mystery. Step into the shadows and uncover the truth! Weekends, School & Public Holidays
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• Hall B
  • Know Your Poo
    Presenting the history and evolution of sanitation and toilets! Find out how human health and culture, as well as sanitation is important to the economy and societal progress. Understand biology of waste and the engineering essentials in solving man's basic needs.
  • Phobia²: The Science of Fear
    Face your fears in an exciting journey of self-discovery.
  • Energy Story
    Energy Story is a new permanent exhibition that explores the sources, transformation, and uses of energy from natural cycles to modern applications.
  • Earth Alive
    Experience Earth Alive, where you can encounter forces and processes that underlie Earth changes.
  • Dialogue with Time - Embracing Ageing
    Reconsider how you understand old age by learning more about the ageing process with our senior guides.
  • Climate Changed
    We are living in a changed world due to the consequences of climate change. There is still hope if everyone plays their part to avert this crisis. What will you do? Presented by Science Centre Singapore and supported by the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment, the Climate Changed exhibition features two key zones – the Climate Action Show and Guilt Trip. Through multimedia displays, interactives, and immersive gameplay, visitors can learn about climate change and hopefully be more motivated to take urgent action to stem climate change and its impacts.
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• Courtyard
  • Fire Tornado Show
    Witness one of the most terrifying and spectacular natural phenomenon as we recreate a fire tornado in a specially built chamber. Watch magnificent flames spin in a towering vortex before your eyes as temperatures within the column of fire reach over 600 degrees Celsius! 2pm (Duration: ~15 mins)
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• Annexe Halls
  • Dinosaurs | Extinctions | Us ($$$)
    Stand beneath a colossal 40-metre dinosaur cast and feel dwarfed by its prehistoric majesty. This breathtaking encounter awaits at DINOSAURS | EXTINCTIONS | US. Science Centre Singapore and the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum of the National University of Singapore are bringing together two world-renowned exhibitions— Dinosaurs of Patagonia and Six Extinctions — for the first time.
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• Hall C
  • Going Viral
    Find out how the evolution of knowledge has enabled modern day pandemic interventions.
  • E3: E-mmersive Experiential Environments
    Be immersed in some of the latest visualisation technologies on this journey from the ends of the universe to the recesses of our brains.
  • Mechanics Alive
    Jointly presented by the Science Centre Singapore and Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, Mechanics Alive! brings visitors into a world of whimsical automata, brought to life through the clever use of simple machines.
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• Hall D
  • EVERYDAY SCIENCE
    As we go about our day to day, science is happening all around us. From the vast sky to the smallest microbe, there is science to be seen, felt, heard, and observed.
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• Hall E
  • The Tinkering Studio
    Find new ways to use familiar and unfamiliar materials - be amazed with your own creations.
  • Tinkering Too
    Tinkering Too studio, an extension of Tinkering Studio, leads the way in hands-on exploration at Science Centre Singapore. With a primary focus on promoting tinkering, it provides distinctive experiences in clay works, circuitry sewing and computational tinkering, as showcased in the captivating Octostudio and beyond.
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• Hall F
  • Activities & Workshops
    General Purposes
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• Hall G
  • 3D: Printing The Future
    Discover the endless possibilities in 3D printing technology.
  • Future Makers
    Engineers make the world that never has been!
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• Entrance
  • The Mind's Eye
    Do you believe what you see? Think again!
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• Kinetic Garden (Outdoor)
  Discover the inter-relationship among forms of energy through interactive exhibits
  • the Magic Swing
  • a Sundial
  • a Lithophone
  • Echo Tube
  • Giant Chair
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KidsSTOP

For children 18 months to 8 years old, we spark an interest in science through play and exploration.

Snow City

Singapore’s only permanent indoor sub-zero snow centre – including a 60-metre arctic snow slide and husky rides!

OMNI-THEATRE

Southeast Asia’s First 8K 3D Digital Dome Theatre – visit remote corners of the world from the comfort of our IMAX theatre.

New Science Centre

The new Science Centre will be a gateway to Jurong Lake Gardens, and a welcoming place where “Science meets Nature”, with lush landscaping and outdoor science exhibits for the public to enjoy. The new Science Centre will be an integral part of Jurong Lake District, and will be a welcoming place where education is integrated with nature. The new Centre will offer unique facilities and a wide range of programmes to drive STEM education in Singapore.

Arulmigu Murugan Temple

Established in 1993 and consecrated in 2004, the Arulmigu Murugan Temple is the only Hindu temple in the Jurong area.

Yuhua Village Market and Food Centre

The shops in Yuhua Village offer a wide range of goods and services for residents. The main attraction in this neighbourhood centre is the Yuhua Village Market and Food Centre. Residents and shoppers are spoilt for choice with the wide variety of fresh market produce, goods, and local hawker food.

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum is Singapore’s only natural history museum, and a leading institution in Southeast Asian biodiversity research, education, and outreach.

Gallery

Source: https://www.nus.edu.sg/newshub/highlights/2015/2015-04/museumopening/fast_facts.pdf
https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/faq/
https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/gallery/
https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/galleryvirtualtour/

The Biodiversity Gallery

(located at Level 1) houses fifteen thematic zones, each showcasing specimens from the Museum’s collection. The star attractions on this level are the three sauropod fossils at the Dinosaur Zone, and the Singapore Whale (Jubilee) at the Mammal Zone.

• Life
• Plant
• Fungi
• Towards Animals
• Molluscs
• Arthropods
• Water to Land
• Marine Cycles
• Fish
• Amphibians
• Reptiles
• Birds
• Dinosaurs
• Mammals
• Tropical Rainforest

The Heritage Gallery

(located at Level 1M, the upper first floor) includes five exhibit zones that present an account of the Museum’s development. They also trace the relationship between Singapore’s development and natural heritage, all bearing rich historical and heritage values of the country.

• Cabinets of Curiosity
• Landscape Walk
• Key Figures in Biodiversity
• Singapore Today
• Singapore’s Mangroves and Freshwater Swamp Forest

Plan Your Visit

Source: https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/plan-your-visit/ There are three visit sessions per day for capacity control purposes. This is to help ensure that every visitor will have a pleasant and comfortable experience at the Museum, with lesser crowds. There is no time restriction upon entering the gallery, but do note that the Museum will close at 6 PM.

Haw Par Villa

Built in 1937, Haw Par Villa, Singapore’s largest outdoor art gallery is the brainchild of Aw Boon Haw, the millionaire philanthropist and marketing extraordinaire who gifted the world Tiger Balm. The eclectic park is a treasure trove of Asian culture, history, philosophy and religion – quirky yet enlightening, at the same time.

Hell’s Museum

Specially curated displays provide comparative insights that will give visitors a better understanding of the commonalities across the world’s major belief systems – and how different communities around the world, as well as in Singapore, draw meaning from death and dying. Stretched over 3,800 sqm, Hell’s Museum also provides a deeper understanding of Haw Par Villa’s infamous 10 Courts of Hell. Discover how concepts behind the graphic representations of sins and punishments in the afterlife evolved as ancient civilisations shared their cultures across time and space.

Labrador Nature Reserve

Follow the self-guided Labrador Nature & Coastal Walk to experience a wide variety of habitats – mudflats, mangroves, coastal forest, rocky shore, parkland and Adinandra belukar (a type of secondary forest). The mangrove and coastal areas in particular are part of a prized indigenous ecosystem that is home to 40% of the endangered and vulnerable plant species in Singapore.

Nature and coastal walk

The self-guided walk comprises 3 segments: Alexandra Garden Trail, Berlayar Creek mangrove trail, and Bukit Chermin Boardwalk.

Bukit Chermin Boardwalk

The 300m Bukit Chermin Boardwalk is an elevated boardwalk that connects the Berlayar Creek mangrove trail and Labrador Nature Reserve to the promenade at Reflections at Keppel Bay. Take the coastal boardwalk to cross the mouth of Berlayar Creek and skirt the coastal foothill of Bukit Chermin. During high tide, you can spot schools of fish from the low-lying boardwalk, and observe the seagrass beds and marine life on the mudflats during low tide.

Berlayar Creek mangrove trail

The 5.61-hectare Berlayar Creek mangrove trail is part of a larger network of habitats snaking through the Southern Ridges to the waterfront. Berlayar Creek is one of two remaining mangroves in the south of mainland Singapore. The trail passes through mangroves, rocky shore and mudflats. The area is rich in biodiversity with 60 bird species, 19 species of fish and 14 true mangrove plants recorded here. It also has a high density of some 50 species of molluscs.

Alexandra Garden Trail

You can extend your walk from Berlayar Creek to the Alexandra Garden Trail. This 830m trail traverses up from Port Road to Alexandra Road and connects to Alexandra Arch, Forest Walk and Gillman Village.

Singapore Botanic Gardens

Situated just five minutes away from bustling Orchard Road, the Singapore Botanic Gardens is a lush sanctuary in the heart of the city. The Gardens has been developed along a Four-Core Concept. The four cores are Tanglin, which is the heritage core retaining the old favourites and charms of the historic Gardens; Central is the tourist belt of the Gardens; and Bukit Timah the educational and discovery zone. A fourth core, Tyersall-Gallop, was created with the opening in 2017 of the Learning Forest which is designed to integrate with the Gardens' existing rain forest to form an enlarged forest habitat.

Landmarks

• Woollerton Gate
• Botanical Art Gallery
• Forest Discovery Centre
• Singapore Botanic Gardens Gallop Extension
• Keppel Discovery Wetlands
• Boardwalk
• Ginger Garden Waterfall
• Sun Rockery
• Frangipani Garden
• Singapore Botanic Gardens Bandstand
• National Orchid Garden ($$$)
• NOG Clock Tower
• National Parks Board
• Evolution Garden
• Seed Bank
• Centre for Ethnobotany
• Ethnobotany Garden
• Bamboo Collection
• Singapore Botanic Gardens Eco Lake
• Bukit Timah Gate
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Adam Food Centre

Source: https://www.roots.gov.sg/stories-landing/stories/Hawker-Centres/Adam-Road-Food-Centre The Adam Road Hawker Centre, opened in 1974, was one of the series of dedicated food centres created in the 1970s. As part of the government’s wider effort to remove hawkers from the streets, it was built independent of a wet market. The hawker centre had its roots in an earlier market started in 1971 when the Public Works Department laid the ground for temporary food stalls next to Bukit Timah Canal. This was opposite the present food centre. This first establishment was actually a series of temporary sheds that housed 32 stalls.