singaporecity360° Red Dot Design Museum
The Red Dot Design Museum occupies a low glass pavilion on the Marina Bay waterfront at 11 Marina Boulevard, on the promenade below the Marina Bay Financial Centre towers.
FORMERLY: Original Maxwell Road (Red Dot Traffic) building closed 2017; museum relocated to 11 Marina Boulevard, Marina Bay Waterfront Promenade. Verified via red-dot.org, 2026-07-31.
Should you go?
A flat S$12 open-dated ticket that comes with a S$5 shop voucher — but Singapore citizens pay whatever they think it is worth.
Mon – Fri 11am–7pm · Sat – Sun 10am–7pm
cheapest single exhibition, non-peak
1 exhibition on · SC360 estimate
Open-dated with no timed slots. Buy at the counter, or online and show the confirmation to collect your pass and voucher.
If you are a Singapore citizen, this is pay-as-you-wish — the museum invites you to name your own price rather than pay the S$12. We have found no other Singapore museum doing that.
Both ticket products are stamped valid until 31 Aug 2026, so the current pricing and voucher arrangement has a hard expiry and will need re-checking.
It is the Singapore arm of the Red Dot design awards, and the two galleries inside hold several hundred award-winning product and concept designs — furniture, electronics, packaging and everyday objects rethought. Unlike the free lobby at the ArtScience Museum across the water, entry here is ticketed: $12 for an adult, which includes a $5 voucher for the shop. It opens Monday to Friday from 11am to 7pm and both weekend days from 10am to 7pm, and it moved to this site in 2017 from its previous home on Maxwell Road.
It sits a short walk round the bay from the Merlion, so it slots easily into a wider Marina Bay waterfront day. The nearest MRT is Downtown station Exit B, roughly five minutes along the waterfront, though Bayfront and Marina Bay stations sit the same distance away — take whichever line you are already on, and head for the free-standing glass box on the promenade rather than into the MBFC office towers.
The $12 admission includes a $5 shop voucher with no minimum spend, so if you intended to buy one of the design objects anyway the real cost of entry drops to about $7 — and the museum shop and café can both be visited for free, without buying a ticket at all.
On right now, and what each ticket costs
A flat S$12 open-dated ticket that comes with a S$5 shop voucher — but Singapore citizens pay whatever they think it is worth. Flip the stubs to your rate; every price includes the resident lines most sites leave out.
Applies to visitors and, as far as the museum states, to PRs too — the concession is worded for citizens only.
Citizens are invited to pay what they wish instead, which is why the citizen column is empty rather than zero — the amount is the visitor's choice.
S$30 for four, so S$7.50 each — a 37% saving on the single ticket and the cheapest route for a family paying the standard rate.
| TICKET | TOURIST | CITIZEN |
|---|---|---|
| Visitor aged 7 and over | S$12 | — |
| Child 6 and under | Free | Free |
| Family (2+2) | S$30 | — |
What will your group pay?
Switch with the chips above the ticket stubs — everything updates together.
Tick more than one and we compare buying them separately against the bundle — automatically.
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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$12
for Admission with a S$5 voucher, straight from the operator's own price table.
Anything above S$12 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$10.67/hr
S$12 for Admission with a S$5 voucher over about 1.1 hours. Exhibition, shop and cafe. 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 Red Dot Design Museum stop
Straight-line distance from the three places a visitor has already heard of.
1.8km
south-west
3.4km
south-east
18km
south-west
Red Dot Design Museum, in every light
Nearby, on foot
In Marina Bay — 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.