The 10 Best Museums in City Hall, Singapore

Goshen Art Gallery is one of Singapore's oldest art gallery. Come to see the private collection of art in Singapore and learn from the owners what it takes to own a piece of investment art. Register for a curatorial tour.

The Asian Civilisations Museum is devoted to exploring the rich artistic heritage of Asia, especially the ancestral cultures of Singaporeans. Founded in 1993 and in its present building by the Singapore River since 2003, the museum traces its roots to the Raffles Museum, founded in the middle of the 19th century. ACM focuses on the many historical connections between the cultures of Asia, and between Asia and the world. Singapore’s history as a port city that brought people together from all over the world is used as a means of examining the history of Asia. Special exhibitions bring magnificent objects from around the world to our Singapore audience. Programmes like the annual River Nights encourage visitors to connect more closely with culture and the arts.

Ode To Art represents an international spectrum of artists with diverse collections of paintings, sculptures, photography, and installation art. Currently with spaces in Singapore and Malaysia, Ode To Art has in its portfolio some of the most distinguished names in contemporary art in the likes of Fernando Botero, Mauro Perucchetti, Qin Feng, Chen Wenling, Lee Jung Woong and Lim TzePeng. The gallery is also actively involved in the development of contemporary art and promotes many promising international emerging artists from their various genres of visual arts.

Situated in the heart of Singapore’s Civic District, National Gallery Singapore oversees the largest public collection of modern art in Southeast Asia. Housed in two beautifully restored national monuments – City Hall and former Supreme Court – are impeccably curated exhibitions that reveal the region’s cultural legacy and art histories. Come visit the Gallery today and discover Singapore and Southeast Asia’s rich heritage through stunning modern art masterpieces.

Occupying the almost 200-year-old building that was Singapore's first Parliament House, The Arts House has played an active role in the Singapore arts and creative scene for the past decade. As a centre for writing, writers and ideas, The Arts House supports and presents programmes and festivals that aim to develop and promote literary arts in Singapore.

View the exterior of the Empress Place Building with timber-louvered windows and a pitched clay tile roof. Inside, you’ll see stately rooms with high ceilings, handsome Doric columns and exquisite plaster mouldings and cornices.This historic 19th-century building is also home to the Asian Civilizations Museum.

MINT Museum of Toys houses a world-class collection of vintage toys and collectibles in an international award-winning contemporary building. Since its inauguration, the museum has expanded its collection, amassing over 50,000 items, 8,500 of which are on display in the museum. The toys and items hail from over 40 countries and range in date from the 1840s to 1970s. These are displayed across four thematic levels of the museum and also at the rooftop which acts as a bar as well as a enamel sign gallery. The collection is made up of various key collections, including the only Batman robot toy complete with cape and sword, a century-old Steiff Teddy Bear and the first mass-manufactured robot before WWII. Over the years, the toy collection have been curated into various exhibitions and programmes run by the museum, serving as windows into the past as well as inspirations for the present.

Since its inception in September 2015, Tokyo Gallery by Musée Collection has been drawing increased attention with a series of successful shows. Thus far, works displayed have shown great diversity and variety, ranging from contemporary silkscreen Pop Art to traditional Japanese calligraphy on handmade paper.