singaporecity360° Asian Civilisations Museum
The Asian Civilisations Museum occupies the Empress Place Building on the north bank of the Singapore River, a few doors from Victoria Theatre in the civic district.
Should you go?
Free for Singapore citizens and PRs on a pink or blue NRIC. Tourists and foreign residents pay S$15 for an adult and S$10 concession for the permanent galleries; children 6 and under go free.
Sat – Thu 10am–7pm · Friday 10am–9pm
cheapest single exhibition, non-peak
2 exhibitions on · SC360 estimate
Weekdays are walk-in. Since 1 July 2026 Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays need an advance timed slot, with only limited walk-in capacity held back. Citizens and PRs still collect a free ticket at Visitor Services on showing NRIC.
last entry 6.30pm / 8.30pm
Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays now need an advance timed-slot booking — only a limited walk-in allocation is kept back. Weekdays are still walk-in.
It is a national museum covering the material cultures of Asia — trade, faith, court and craft — with galleries running from Tang shipwreck ceramics to South Asian sculpture and Peranakan objects. Singapore citizens and permanent residents enter the permanent galleries free on production of an NRIC; foreign visitors pay 15 dollars for an adult ticket, with a 10-dollar concession rate and free entry for children aged six and under. It opens daily from 10am to 7pm and stays open until 9pm on Fridays, with the last gallery entry 30 minutes before closing.
The riverside setting makes it easy to pair with a walk across Cavenagh Bridge to the Fullerton, a couple of minutes on foot. Come out of Raffles Place MRT Exit H and it is about a five-minute walk to Empress Place; the nearest bus stop is Fullerton Square (03011), two minutes away, and drop-offs are via Old Parliament Lane rather than the river frontage.
The permanent galleries are free for citizens and PRs but ticketed for tourists at 15 dollars, so if you qualify for the 10-dollar concession — senior 60 and over, student, or a visitor with a disability plus one caregiver — carry the ID, because it is only honoured at the Visitor Services counter, not assumed. Friday's 9pm close is the quietest slot to see the shipwreck and faith galleries without a school-group crowd.
On right now, and what each ticket costs
Free for Singapore citizens and PRs on a pink or blue NRIC. Tourists and foreign residents pay S$15 for an adult and S$10 concession for the permanent galleries; children 6 and under go free. Flip the stubs to your rate; every price includes the resident lines most sites leave out.
The museum's own heading is "tourists and foreign residents" — a foreigner living in Singapore pays the same as a visitor.
Free for Singapore citizens and PRs, and for children 6 and under of any nationality.
The museum states free entry for Singaporeans and PRs but publishes no foreigner price for it. Because it is staged inside two permanent galleries it looks to be covered by general admission — but the museum does not say so, so the tourist cells are left empty rather than assumed.
| TICKET | TOURIST | CITIZEN/PR |
|---|---|---|
| Adult | S$15 | Free |
| Concession | S$10 | Free |
| Adult | — | Free |
| Concession | — | Free |
What will your group pay?
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What you should be paying
Ticket resellers earn a commission on what they sell you. We sell nothing, so here is the operator's own price — compare before you buy.
S$15
for General admission, straight from the operator's own price table.
Anything above S$15 is a markup. A reseller can be genuinely cheaper — some run below the gate price to win the booking — but you now know which side of the line you are on. Check the total at checkout, not the headline.
See it on the operator's own page →S$15
100% off General admission: Free instead of S$15, on every adult ticket.
This is wider than most people think. The museum's own wording is Singapore citizens and permanent residents, and the rate is genuinely zero rather than discounted. A pink or blue NRIC is checked at Visitor Services.
S$6.67/hr
S$15 for General admission over about 2.3 hours, and nothing at all if you are a citizen or PR. Eleven permanent galleries over three levels. Our estimate; the museum publishes no suggested length. The duration is our estimate, not the operator's.
Rain, heat, and what to do about it
Live readings and forecasts from NEA. Four days is the limit — past that, nobody is forecasting, they are showing you an average.
Southwest Monsoon
June to September
Short, sharp early-morning showers and occasional squall lines. Drier overall than the northeast wet phase.
The other good window. Rain tends to arrive early and clear, leaving usable afternoons. This is also when haze can occur, which is worth checking rather than assuming.
Plan your Asian Civilisations Museum stop
Straight-line distance from the three places a visitor has already heard of.
1.1km
west
3.0km
south-east
17km
south-west
Asian Civilisations Museum, in every light
Nearby, on foot
In Civic District — close enough to collect on the same trip out.
Contains information from Tourist Attractions accessed on 2026-08-01 from data.gov.sg, made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0.