What to do this weekend?
Whether you’re hanging out with your friends, planning a date, or indulging in some well-deserved alone time, we’ve got you covered. From the temporary pop-ups and new art exhibitions to new trending cafes and more, there’s definitely something for everyone. If you’re tourist seeking to bypass the usual tourist attractions this weekend, stay on.
New things to do in Singapore this weekend (9-11 Oct 2026)
Half of this weekend runs on Grand Prix hype, and the other half doesn’t care about F1 at all.
Here are 6 things worth building your weekend around.
1. teamLab: Infinite Existence
You don’t have to wait for the 2028 to see teamLab in Singapore.
This is the Japanese art collective’s first solo exhibition here, with eight digital works built around what teamLab calls Ultrasubjective Space. The idea borrows from old East Asian scrolls and folding screens, so you move through each work instead of viewing it from one fixed spot. Expect leaping tigers and blossoming flowers, as well as waterfalls and a medieval city.
Free admission.
Date: 19 September-8 November 2026
Location: Supper House, 37 Keppel Road, #04-02, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089064
Opening hours:
Mon-Wed: Closed
Thu-Sat: 12-7pm
Sun: 12-5pm
Admission: Free
2. Raceborn Fest by Porsche
The Porsche that still holds a 55-year-old record at Spa is on show for free this weekend.
Porsche is marking 75 years of its motorsport arm with a three-day festival, headlined by the Gulf-liveried 1971 917 KH on loan from the Porsche Museum. The new 911 Challenge race car makes its Southeast Asian debut right beside it.
Beyond the cars, there are professional racing simulators to try, as well as a pedal-car course for kids. If you’re a car-meet regular, Cars ‘N’ Kopi is also hosting a community meet on Friday.
Date: 9-11 October 2026
Location: Porsche Studio Singapore, Guoco Midtown, 130 Beach Road, #01-12, Singapore 189770
Opening hours: 10am-10pm
Admission: Free
3. Kyo Cards Con
Singapore’s card-collecting crowd has a free trade floor to work this weekend.
Kyo Cards Con is one of two local card shows that collectors consistently say are worth turning up for, with vendor booths filling an entire exhibition hall.
Date: 10-11 October 2026
Location: Singapore EXPO Hall 5A, 1 Expo Drive, Singapore 486150
Opening hours: 11am-8pm
Admission: Free
4. Sago Festival of Speed
For one afternoon only, one of Singapore’s best-known cocktail bars is throwing an F1 block party.
Sago House is lining the street with classic cars and vintage motorcycles, plus stalls selling racing and urban gear. There’s an F1 racing simulator to test yourself on, as well as food and cocktails from the neighbourhood’s bars. Kids get their own play area too.
Date: 10 October 2026
Location: Duxton Hill, Singapore 089615
Opening hours: 1-6pm
Admission: Free
5. Singapore History Gallery
The museum’s flagship gallery is back after its first major refresh in 20 years.
A year-long restoration has reworked the gallery into seven sections tracing 700 years of Singapore, from 1300s Temasek to today. The Singapore Stone and Zubir Said’s grand piano are still the headline artefacts, but the new interactives are what you’ll remember, from a rickshaw simulator to a full-sized HDB lift.
Set aside at least two hours. Entry is free for all visitors from 10-12 October, after which it stays free for Singaporeans and PRs.
Date: Opening 10 October 2026
Location: National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897
Opening hours: 10am-7pm
Admission: Free for Singaporeans and PRs
6. National Museum of Singapore 139th Anniversary: Stories of Everyday
The museum’s 139th birthday comes with a new mascot and a design market.
Stories of Everyday runs for nine days, anchored by The Living Archive, a design market by Of Wonder Wander with ceramics and stationery, as well as art prints and food. You’ll also meet Stoney, the new mascot inspired by the Singapore Stone, who gets a larger-than-life installation on the lawn.
Make your own pipe-cleaner Stoney at the drop-in craft workshop, or join a participatory dance performance by The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company.
Date: 10-18 October 2026
Location: National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897
Opening hours: 10am-7pm
Admission: Free
7. Race Season at Lau Pa Sat
The cheapest seat for the Singapore Grand Prix is at a hawker table.
The hawker centre is screening race weekend live on two 130-inch screens, with slot-car racing running all weekend on a live leaderboard. Heineken 0.0 is also running its own activities on site.
On Friday at 7:45pm, a parade of performers and dancers winds through the hawker centre before flagging off Sprint Qualifying.
Date: 27 September-11 October 2026 (live screenings 9-11 October)
Location: Lau Pa Sat, 18 Raffles Quay, Singapore 048582
Opening hours: 24 hours daily
Admission: Free
8. GrandBite @ Bayfront
More than 70 halal vendors are cooking festival-only dishes for three nights.
GrandBite pairs the food street with live bands, headlined by acts from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Every stall is halal-certified, Muslim-owned or has met the event’s halal requirements.
Here’s how Makan Rampage works: you taste your way through the competing dishes, vote for your favourite and the crowd crowns the dish of the night. Tickets start from $5 through Eventbrite.
Date: 9-11 October 2026
Location: Bayfront Event Space, 12A Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018970
Opening hours: 3-10pm daily
9. +44 and Almave at Marina Bay Sands
Lewis Hamilton’s non-alcoholic agave spirit makes its Southeast Asian debut this week.
Almave is made in Mexico from blue agave using traditional copper-still distillation, and comes as Blanco, Ambar and Humo. From 8-15 October, five Marina Bay Sands restaurants, including Mott 32 and Yardbird, are pouring The Lewis, a zero-proof cocktail Hamilton co-created.
Beyond the bar menus, Hamilton’s +44 lifestyle brand has its first Southeast Asian pop-up running until Sunday. The draw is a Singapore-exclusive streetwear capsule with local artist Jahan Loh, and there’s a managed queue with an occupancy cap.
Date: 5-11 October 2026 (+44 pop-up), 8-15 October 2026 (The Lewis)
Location: The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands, 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956
10. Atomic Daydream by Ardhira Putra
Joo Chiat‘s most viral gallery turns into a superhero shrine in October.
Atomic Daydream brings Jakarta-based illustrator Ardhira Putra’s Asian retro-pop universe to Heartware Store & Gallery, blending Super Sentai and tokusatsu nostalgia with the realities of adulthood. Ardhira has worked with Apple, Vice, MTV and the Las Vegas Sphere, and this show debuts an entirely new lineup of illustrations, art prints and collectibles.
Highlights include five one-of-a-kind original artworks and the debut of HeartwaveRobo, Ardhira’s first sofubi vinyl toy, made in collaboration with Heartware.
Date: 3 October–22 November 2026
Location: Heartware Store & Gallery, 350B Joo Chiat Road, Singapore 427598
Opening hours: 12-7pm
11. Music Matters Live 2026
Twenty-one years in, and this is still the best free festival lineup Clarke Quay throws all year.
For one weekend only, Music Matters Live returns for four nights with more than 40 emerging artists from 15 countries, split across themed showcases — P-Pop one night, J-Pop the next, then Nagaland folk and Australian indie. Filipino act Lola Amour headlines alongside EXILE TRIBE’s LIL LEAGUE and KID PHENOMENON, with a closing Girls’ Night Out on 7 October built around female artists only.
No ticket, no RSVP — just show up at Fountain Square.
Date: 2-4 & 7 October 2026
Location: CQ @ Clarke Quay, Fountain Square, 3 River Valley Road, Singapore 179024
Opening hours: 4pm-11:30pm
Admission: Free
12. Birkenstock: Walk Naturally
Show up in your Birkenstocks this weekend and New Bahru gives you a free coffee for it.
PPP Coffee is pouring a specially selected Colombian blend for the takeover, and anyone wearing Birkenstocks gets it free — but you’ll have to pick up a redemption sleeve at The Lawn first.
But there are also activities too! Soilboy runs a Sculpt & Plant workshop on 3 October (11am-12:30pm) where you mould your own sustainable planter, while Off Duty Pilates runs foot-mobility classes using Birkenstock’s cork tools on both 3 and 4 October.
Workshops are free to join but slots are limited, so turn up on time.
Date: 18 September-12 October 2026
Location: New Bahru, 46 Kim Yam Road, Singapore
Opening hours:
Mon-Thu: 9am-8pm
Fri-Sat: 9am-9pm
Sunday: 9am-8pm
Admission: Free
13. adidas x Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Pop-Up
There’s an actual Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 car parked inside Raffles City, and you can walk right up to it.
Level 1’s Art Square and Stamford Square have swapped their usual pop-up furniture for the showcar, with racing simulators set up alongside it for anyone chasing a personal-best lap time. It’s also the first place in Singapore to see the team’s Vanda Bloom collection with adidas, a Singapore Grand Prix capsule built around the Vanda Miss Joaquim orchid — the driver jersey runs purple and pink, with the same floral graphic repeated across the rest of the range.
Date: 27 September-12 October 2026
Location: Raffles City, Level 1 Art Square & Stamford Square, 252 North Bridge Road, Singapore 179103
Opening hours: 10am-10pm daily
Admission: Free
14. LEGO F1: Experience the Thrill
Suntec City’s atrium has been rebuilt entirely out of LEGO for Grand Prix season.
Towers 3 and 4 now hold life-sized LEGO race car builds and race-themed play zones, making it one of the more exciting F1 pop-ups in Singapore.
But in addition to the fun things to do, spending at Suntec City also unlock free parking, e-vouchers up to $10, and F&B vouchers worth up to $45. Meanwhile, F1 ticket holders get extra in-store deals just by flashing their race ticket at participating stores.
Date: 1-18 October 2026
Location: Suntec City Atrium, Towers 3 & 4, 3 Temasek Boulevard, Singapore 038983
Opening hours: 10am-10pm
Admission: Free
15. Breitling F1 Experience
Breitling’s Raffles City boutique spills out onto the mall floor for its own F1 activation.
Outside the store, there’s a racing simulator, a speed-tap reflex challenge and a driver-suit gallery worth a lap around even if you’re not buying a watch.
A driver meet-and-greet is planned sometime during the run — Raffles City hasn’t named who yet, so keep an eye on @rafflescitysg on Instagram for the date.
Date: 3-12 October 2026
Location: Raffles City, outside Breitling Boutique #01-35, External Quartzite Area, 252 North Bridge Road, Singapore 179103
Opening hours: 10am-10pm daily
Admission: Free
16. Race Season at Lau Pa Sat
Lau Pa Sat turns into a race-day viewing party, and the slot cars are real prizes, not gimmicks.
Race Season at Lau Pa Sat pairs live race screenings across two 130-inch screens with a Heineken® race podium photo spot, running the length of Grand Prix week. A flag-off performance opens the weekend for the Sprint Qualifying race, backed by a Buy 1, Get 1 Free deal on Heineken® 0.0 cans and pints at Kopi Kiosk.
From 9 to 11 October, slot-car racing runs on a live leaderboard, with prizes for the top three racers each day.
Date: 27 September–11 October 2026
Location: Lau Pa Sat, 18 Raffles Quay, Singapore 048582
Opening hours: TBC
Admission: Free
17. BuzzAttack
A Spanish TV game-show format lands in Clarke Quay, and anyone can be the contestant.
BuzzAttack is a full game-show set, complete with buzzing podiums, fluorescent lighting and audiovisual effects. Teams (you’ll need to sign up with a minimum group size of four) go head-to-head across trivia rounds covering pop culture, music, sports and current events, with wheel spins and mini challenges mixed in.
Tickets start from $22.9 per person.
Date: from 29 September 2026
Location: Clarke Quay Central, 6 Eu Tong Sen Street, #02-58/59/64/65, Singapore 059817
Opening hours: 10am-9pm
19. Cuturi Gallery: Two of a Kind I
Two very different ways of painting Singapore, hung in the same room on purpose.
Shen Jiaqi builds her canvases from the city’s architecture and industrial machinery, letting urban vegetation creep into the gaps between memory and the present. Israfil Ridhwan works the opposite register entirely — oil-painted, poster-like figures against warm backgrounds, drawing on Frida Kahlo and the Renaissance to work through grief, love and self-criticism. Two of a Kind I puts the two side by side for the first time.
Date: 26 September-7 November 2026
Location: Cuturi Gallery, 61 Aliwal Street, Singapore 199937
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Sat: 12-7pm
Sunday: Closed
20. Halloween Horror Nights 14
Universal Studios Singapore’s haunted house season returns for a 14th year, and this is opening weekend.
The format stays the same: after-dark park access with haunted houses and roaming scare actors replacing the daytime rides. In addition to the returning scare zones, look forward to four new haunted houses and three live shows built around this year’s lineup.
Tickets start from $58 through Resorts World Sentosa’s website.
Date: 25 September-1 November 2026 (selected nights)
Location: Universal Studios Singapore, 8 Sentosa Gateway, Singapore 098269
Admission: From $58
21. Textures of Longing and Belonging
A Singapore urban landscape you’ve walked past a hundred times, repainted by someone who actually looked at it.
Tung Yue Nang’s solo show at artcommune gallery gathers around 15 paintings made between 2018 and 2026, curated by Yang Jye Ru around the city’s built environment.
Date: Opens 19 September 2026
Location: artcommune gallery, 76 Bras Basah Road, #01-01, Carlton Hotel Singapore, Singapore 189558
Opening hours: 12-7pm
Admission: Free
22. Haridas Contemporary: PULSE 2
Seven artists born as far apart as 1953 and 2000 share the same room, and the gap barely shows.
PULSE 2 is Haridas Contemporary’s second biennial check-in on where Singapore and Indonesian contemporary art actually stands, following on from the inaugural edition in 2024. This round brings together Aiman, Cynthia Delaney Suwito, Dana Lam, Farizwan Fajari, Genevieve Leong, Joey Leung and Suliswanto Urubingwaru, spanning three decades of practice rather than a single generation’s take.
Date: 12 September-11 October 2026
Location: Haridas Contemporary, 37 Keppel Road #04-01F, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089064
Opening hours:
Mon-Tue: Closed
Wed: By appointment
Thu-Sat: 12-7pm
Sun: 12-5pm
23. MilkyShop
Seoul’s most talked-about bakery finally lands in Singapore this week.
Located at New Bahru, The Butter Sand series arrives in four flavours — Creme Brulee, Milk Caramel, Peanut and Matcha — each a crisp biscuit shell packed with a butter filling that turns ice-cream-smooth when chilled. Only 250 boxes go out each day.
Date: 3 September 2026-2 January 2027
Location: New Bahru, 46 Kim Yam Road, Singapore 239351
Opening hours: 10am-8pm
24. Sacred Caves: Dunhuang, Buddhism, and the Silk Road
The Silk Road’s most important Buddhist cave complex has never made it to Southeast Asia — until this September.
For over a thousand years, the oasis city of Dunhuang sat at a crossroads linking China and Central Asia, and its Mogao Caves became one of the world’s most important centres of Buddhist art. Carved into cliffs at the edge of the Gobi Desert between the 4th and 14th centuries, the caves are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Asian Civilisations Museum recreates several cave interiors at life size, paired with paintings and sculptures, plus manuscripts and textiles that trace the trade and religious exchange along the route. It’s the first time this material has been shown anywhere in Southeast Asia.
Date: 25 September 2026-7 March 2027
Location: Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Place, Singapore 179555
Opening hours:
Mon-Thu: 10am-7pm
Fri: 10am-9pm
Sat-Sun: 10am-7pm
25. Lilytopia at Flower Dome
Gardens by the Bay’s first Ancient Egypt-themed display swaps the usual European blooms for Nile-fed gardens and a full Dendera Temple recreation.
Every colour of lily gets a turn here, including the rare Egyptian Blue Lotus, set against temple sculptures built specifically for the run.
Price: $12 (Singapore residents)
Date: 21 August-27 September 2026
Location: Flower Dome, 18 Marina Gardens Drive, Singapore 018953
Opening hours: 9am-9pm
26. Art Remembers
National Gallery’s newest show puts 20 Southeast Asian artists to work on histories no one bothered to record.
Working from archives and personal records, the artists reframe forgotten and marginalised stories from across the region, positioning art itself as a form of historical record.
Date: 21 August-18 October 2026
Location: National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew’s Rd, Singapore 178957
Opening hours: 10am-7pm
27. Whitestone Gallery: Counterweight — The Systems of Two
Two real-life artist couples turn their marriages into physics experiments for Whitestone Gallery’s relaunch show.
Counterweight: The Systems of Two pairs Stefen Chow and Huiyi Lin with Wang Ruobing and Chen Sai Hua Kuan, curated by Tamares Goh around a single idea: partnership as a lever, balancing enough weight to carry the bigger issues each couple tackles alone.
Chow and Lin show 42 works and two new materials for them, ceramics in Decentralized Value Systems (2026) and embroidered textiles in Blink, where AI-generated food images get stitched over with questions their two children helped write. Meanwhile, Ruobing & Sai’s from Tide… sound check presses field recordings from the sea onto vinyl records made from marine plastic debris collected off Singapore’s shores.
Date: 16 August-17 October 2026
Location: Whitestone Gallery, 39 Keppel Road, #05-03/06, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Sun: 11am-7pm
28. Lai Foong Moi: Crossings
A trailblazing Nanyang artist gets her first solo show in more than 60 years.
The exhibition gathers rarely seen portraits, still lifes and landscapes from an artist who taught at her alma mater while quietly building one of the more overlooked bodies of work from Singapore and Malaya’s transitional 1960s. It’s presented as part of the Gallery’s ongoing Dalam Singapore series on lesser-known figures in local art history.
Location: National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew’s Rd, Singapore 178957
29. Neha Vedpathak: Land, Body, Spirit
Neha Vedpathak doesn’t paint paper — she plucks it, one fibre at a time, until it turns into something closer to lace.
The Indian-born, Detroit-based artist spends weeks hand-plucking sheets of Japanese paper into sculptural wall reliefs, turning a flat material into something with real depth and shadow. Land, Body, Spirit is her first show with Sundaram Tagore’s Singapore space, and it runs through the length of Singapore Gallery Month and beyond.
Date: 15 August-17 October 2026
Location: Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 5 Lock Road, #01-05, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108933
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Fri: 11am-6pm
Sat: 11am-7pm
Sunday: Closed
30. Prestige Gallery: Cleanse — Asia Pacific Now
Prestige Gallery treats cleansing as a body of theory this round, not just a spa word.
Cleanse: Asia Pacific Now brings together artists from across the region examining cleansing as ritual, psychological state, and cultural inheritance, closer to a purification rite than a wellness trend. The group show runs the length of Singapore Gallery Month at the gallery’s Tanjong Pagar Distripark space.
Date: 15 August-27 September 2026
Location: Prestige Gallery, 39 Keppel Road, #03-01, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Sun: 11am-7pm
Best things to do this weekend
31. POP BAKERY
Pop Mart’s first bakery in Southeast Asia opens the day before this list even starts.
The two-storey WEAVE flagship folds a themed bakery into the usual blind-box shopping, with Labubu butter cookies, DIMOO cookies, Molly chocolates and CRYBABY sablé cookies expected in collectible tins if the China outlets are anything to go by. Exact prices and hours haven’t been announced yet, so check ahead before making the trip to Sentosa.
Date: Opens 30 July 2026
Location: WEAVE, Resorts World Sentosa, 8 Sentosa Gateway, Singapore 098269
32. SOMEWHERE @ Bugis Street
Bugis Street’s gutted second floor reopens as a youth marketplace, and it’s definitely one to check out this weekend.
SOMEWHERE @ Bugis Street takes over the newly revitalised Level 2 with pre-loved fashion, indie brands and dedicated workshop space built for browsing rather than just buying. The same floor also debuts pop-ups from Ruby Merlot (leather goods), White Pixies (candles and diffusers), and more — in addition to popular brands like Standard Photo Studio‘s themed photobooths and Creamie Sippies matcha.
Date: Opening on 25 July 2026
Location: Bugis Street, Level 2, 3 New Bugis St, Singapore 188867
33. Formula 1 Exhibition
Singapore gets Asia’s first look at the official F1 Exhibition, and it opens the day before this list even starts.
Seventy-six years of F1 history fill Gardens by the Bay across seven themed rooms, including Sebastian Vettel’s 2011 championship-winning Red Bull RB7 and the 2003 BAR Honda 005 Jenson Button once drove. Racing simulators and exclusive footage round out the walkthrough.
Price: From $29 (child), $40 (13-17), $49 (adult)
Date: 23 July-18 October 2026
Location: Gardens by the Bay, 18 Marina Gardens Dr, Singapore 018953
Opening hours: 11am-9pm
34. Islands in the Net: Southeast Asian Futures in the Age of AI
A Beeple mega-collector’s Singapore studio asks what survives once a system turns everything it touches into data.
Padimai Art & Tech Studio’s group show brings together Heman Chong, Fyerool Darma, Ho Rui An and a research team from MIT Media Lab, opening with Chong’s Safe Entry SafeEntry-referencing painting and an hour-long walk through a since-renovated Changi Airport terminal. The show also includes a live AI impact benchmark and a voice-note platform that lets visitors leave traces on the exhibition’s own web archive.
Date: 17 July-16 November 2026
Location: Padimai Art & Tech Studio, 39 Keppel Rd, #03-02, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
Opening hours: 10am-7pm
35. Maria Taniguchi: Afterimage
Afterimage gathers Maria Taniguchi’s paintings, sculpture and moving image into one gallery, the first monographic exhibition a Singapore museum has given the acclaimed artist. It’s a quieter counterpoint if the Padimai show two floors down feels like too much at once — both sit inside the same Tanjong Pagar Distripark complex.
Date: 24 July 2026-22 November 2026
Location: SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Gallery 3, Level 3, 39 Keppel Rd, #01-02, Singapore 089065
Opening hours: 10am-7pm
36. PHOTOMANNER at Funan
Singapore’s first sticker photobooth just opened inside Funan, and it’s not the only reason to detour through the mall.
PHOTOMANNER’s fifth outlet comprises five different themes, including the aforementioned sticker photobooth, and Manner High, a yearbook-style set built around uniforms and mock student ID cards.
Our favourite part has to be the DIY corner, where you can personalise your photo strips!
Location: Funan, 107 North Bridge Rd, #02-11, Singapore 179105
Opening hours: 10am-10pm
37. Peekabrew
There’s a new hole-in-the-wall — literally — at Kampong Glam, and it’s worth a visit this weekend.
Peekabrew took over a shopfront on Baghdad Street with a short menu built around crisp fried sandwiches and a proper matcha latte. The Fried Sandos come in sweet and savoury options and start from $4, and you can’t go wrong with the Matcha Latte ($7)
Location: 12 Baghdad St, Singapore
Opening hours:
Mon-Thu: 11am-10pm
Fri-Sat: 11am-11pm
Sun: 11am-10pm
38. Monet Inside
Ground Seesaw’s newest residency skips the guided audio tour and puts Monet’s brushwork across five large-scale screens instead.
Monet Inside moves chronologically through Monet’s career, from his early Paris years to the sprawling Water Lilies that closed it out, told through 200 reproduced works and 45 minutes of narrated film.
Tickets from $25.
Location: Ground Seesaw, 3F Parkview Square, 600 North Bridge Rd, Singapore 188778
Opening hours: 10am-6pm (last entry 5pm)
39. Platform 1094 — Wizard’s Awakening Banquet
Two hours to break a theatrical curse, then a three-course meal.
Platform 1094 on Serangoon Road runs a fully immersive wizard banquet: the chefs have been cursed, and the feast only begins once your table gathers four magical ingredients and brews the Potion of Awakening. A wizard professor guides you through close-up magic at the table and interactive group challenges, with theatrical characters appearing throughout the evening. The three-course meal arrives only after the quest is complete. At $100 per adult and $68 per child with the meal included, it’s a complete night out.
Location: Platform 1094, 1094 Serangoon Road, Singapore 328192
Opening hours: Session-based
40. Disney Garden of Wonder
Disney Garden of Wonder is back at Floral Fantasy from 8 June, this time with a new set of Disney characters rendered as floral topiaries across the attraction’s indoor gardens.
The detail isn’t out yet on which characters or how the route is laid out differently from last year’s edition — Gardens by the Bay hasn’t released a full breakdown. What’s confirmed is that it opens alongside the school holiday period and is included with a Floral Fantasy ticket. Worth keeping an eye on the Gardens by the Bay website for the character reveal before booking.
Date: 8 June 2026-14 March 2027
Location: Floral Fantasy, Gardens by the Bay, 18 Marina Gardens Dr, Singapore 018953
Opening hours: 10am–7pm
41. Into the Ocean: Journey Beneath
ArtScience Museum and OceanX make their world premiere together in Singapore this weekend— and the deep-sea footage alone is worth the ticket.
Into the Ocean: Journey Beneath is designed as a descent through five zones, from sunlit coral reefs to the ocean’s deepest reaches, built around footage captured by OceanX for Blue Planet II and beyond. Among the commissioned works is Seeing Echoes in the Mind of the Whale, a three-screen installation by London collective Marshmallow Laser Feast.
Date: 6 June–1 November 2026
Location: ArtScience Museum, 6 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018974
Opening hours:
Mon-Thu: 10am-7pm
Fri-Sat: 10am-9pm
Sun: 10am-7pm
42. Rainforest Wild Adventure — East Zone
The okapi has never been seen in Southeast Asia — until Mandai opened the East Zone.
Mandai Wildlife Reserve’s new East Zone is anchored by Singapore’s first okapi: a rare Central African species related to giraffes, making its Southeast Asia debut. Also in the expansion: Primate Climb elevated viewpoints through the forest canopy and National Geographic pop-up stores across both zones.
Tickets from $48 per adult, and $33 per child. No additional charge beyond general admission.
Location: Mandai Wildlife Reserve, 80 Mandai Lake Rd, Singapore 729826
Opening hours: 8:30am-6pm
43. Skypark Sentosa by AJ Hackett
Skypark Sentosa is relaunching with two dry slides built 44 metres above Siloso Beach — and one of them is a world record holder.
Developed in partnership with Klook, the new addition centres on two distinct rides: Skydrop, a near-vertical drop slide that holds the title of the world’s tallest land-based drop slide, and The Big Klook Slide, the more approachable option for anyone after the height without the freefall. Both sit at 44 metres, making them the tallest dry slides in Southeast Asia, with views over Siloso Beach on the way down.
After dark, the whole structure is lit up — the evening version is worth the separate trip.
Date: Opening 7 June onwards
Location: 30 Siloso Beach Walk, Sentosa Island, Singapore 099018
Opening hours: 11am-7pm
44. Visitors Cafe
The team behind Noci Pasta Bar just opened a new Korean cafe in Tanjong Pagar. And judging by their queues during their soft opening on the weekdays, you should brace yourself for the weekend crowd…
Gorgeous aesthetics, with a pet-friendly al-fresco dining space (that’s properly air-conditioned). Highlights on the menu include their cloud drinks, but one item you can’t miss is their Honeybutter Ice Cream & Ricotta Croissant.
Location: 7 Tanjong Pagar Plz, #01-106, Singapore 081007
Opening hours: 8am-10pm
45. After the Monsoon: Art & War in Southeast Asia
National Gallery’s next blockbuster reframes WWII and the Vietnam War through Southeast Asian eyes.
Opening 22 May 2026 at National Gallery Singapore, After the Monsoon gathers 280 works across painting, drawing, photography, installation and interactive art to re-examine how the region has documented and challenged dominant war histories. The title borrows from the monsoon’s wet-and-dry cycle as a metaphor for conflict, destruction, and renewal.
Date: 22 May-18 October 2026
Location: National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew’s Rd, Singapore 178957
Opening hours: 10am-7pm daily
46. Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue
Minecraft fans, you’re in luck. Starting this weekend, you can step into your favourite blocky world in real life at Mandai.
The Minecraft Experience is an immersive, story-driven adventure, where you’ll take on a mission to save your village from a zombie attack.
Blending theatrical sets, motion-tracking gameplay, and teamwork, it’s a one-hour quest perfect for all ages.
Admission starts from $51 for adult and $44 for children.
Date: 24 April-13 September 2026
Location: Green Canvas, 80 Mandai Lake Rd, Singapore 729826
Opening hours:
Mon-Fri: 11am-7pm
Sat-Sun: 10am-8pm
47. Dorifto
Check out Singapore’s coolest new attraction, opening this weekend.
Japanese for “drift”, Dorifto is the newest indoor drifiting experience inspired by Japanese touge roads.
Location: Velocity @ Novena Square, Level 6A, 238 Thomson Rd, Singapore 307683
Opening hours:
Mon-Fri: 12-10pm
Sat-Sun: 10am-10pm
48. Mandai Exploria
Get ready to explore Exploria, Southeast Asia’s largest indoor nature-themed multimedia attraction at Mandai Wildlife Reserve. What’s unique about this spot is how interactive it truly is. You’ll get a unique QR code to design your own avatar, and collect badges as you interact with the various exhibits.
Spanning 10,000sqm, this immersive space, broken down into five worlds, uses digital projections and interactive elements to bring extreme habitats and tiny ecosystems to life.
Tickets start from $34.2 per adult, and $25.2 per child.
Date: Opening on 3 March 2026
Location: Green Canvas, Mandai Wildlife EAST, 80 Mandai Lake Rd, Singapore 729826
Opening hours:
Mon-Fri: 11am-8pm
Sat-Sun: 11am-9pm
49. Photomanner’s Claw Machine
There’s a brand new self-photo studio concept, and it’s Photomanner’s claw machine-themed photo booth.
It’s designed just like a real teddy bear catcher, complete with an actual claw inside, and tons of adorable plushies.
Strike your cutest poses and snap adorable memories with friends and choose from a normal photo strip for $10 or a flipbook for $12.
Location: 30 Haji Ln, Singapore 189223
Opening hours: 10am-10.30pm
50. Gurasu House
Discover Gurasu House, Singapore’s only lampworking studio, where you can turn molten glass into your own beautiful creations. They offer beginner class, intermediate, private sessions, and open studio, there’s something for every skill level.
For first-timers, the beginner classes, where you can craft your own glass flowers, rings, and more, start from $118 per pax
Location: 80 Playfair Rd, Tower A, #06-10A Kapo Factory Building, Singapore 367998
Opening hours:
Mon-Thu: Closed
Fri-Sun: 10am-12.30pm, 1.30-7pm
51. Singapore Side Cars
Experience the city’s pulse from a vintage sidecar with the Vespa Night Tour of Singapore.
Zip through historic districts of Chinatown and Little India in a heart-pounding convoy. In addition to the mesmerising skylines, your guide will share insider secrets along the way — the best things to eat, and the most underrated shops to explore.
Tickets start from $198.
Location: Pick up @ Lirea Industrial Building, #02-01, 37 MacTaggart Rr, Singapore 36808
52. Free movies at Sentosa
Catch free Christmas movie screenings this weekend at Sentosa’s Movies by the Beach, held at Palawan Kidz City Roof Garden.
No booking needed. Just sit back under the stars, enjoy the sea breeze, and grab a bite from nearby food trucks.
Click here for this weekend’s movie schedule.
Date: Every weekend
Location: Palawan Kidz City Roof Garden, 31 Beach View, Singapore 098008
53. Studio Frond
This weekend, check out this new matcha bar at Joo Chiat offers a floral arrangement experience where you get to DIY your takeaway tray from $15.
But, their two matcha varieties really impressed.
Matcha purists should go for their Usucha (from $6) or Matcha Latte (from $7.5) to fully savour the nuances of their matcha powder. But, their matcha speciality drinks, such as the Miso Butterscotch Matcha (from $8.5) and White Corn Matcha (from $9.5) were really impressive as well.
Location: 216 Joo Chiat Rd, Singapore 427483
Opening hours
Mon-Fri: Closed
Sat-Sun: 9am-7pm
54. Singapore Odyssea: A Journey Through Time
Be one of the first to check out National Museum of Singapore’s newest exhibition this weekend.
Singapore Odyssea: A Journey Through Time, an immersive gallery filled with breathtaking light shows, moving animations, and interactive floor projections that respond to your every step. The centrepiece? A glowing suspended LED globe and a cinematic digital waterfall that parts as you approach.
But it’s not just an exhibition. Before entering, you’ll get to put on a personalised wristband that glows and interacts with the space around you, adding a whimsical touch to your photos.
Free admission.
Date: From 8 August 2025
Location: 93 Stamford Rd, Singapore 178897
Opening hours: 10:30am-8:30pm
55. Mr & Mrs Marketplace
A hidden gem for hidden gems, this quaint little store at Tiong Bahru Market houses a huge collection of trinkets.
Mr & Mrs Marketplace is run by an adorable elderly couple, who sourced every item themselves. In addition to pop-culture novelties like Sanrio and Chikawa, you’ll also be able to find lots of rare vintage items.
Oh and did we mention that they accept CDC Vouchers too?
Location: Tiong Bahru Market, #01-1233, 30 Seng Poh Rd, Singapore 168898
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Wed: 11am-2pm
Thu-Sun: 11am-3pm
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56. Snow Pawttage
Self-proclaimed as the first Samoyed Yoga in Singapore and the world, Snow Pawttage offers a new activity in Singapore, especially for pet and fitness lovers.
Location: 723 Geylang Rd, Singapore 389634
Opening hours:
Monday: 2:30-3:30pm
Tue-Wed: Closed
Thu-Sun: 2:30-3:30pm
57. Harry Potter: Visions of Magic in Singapore
One of the most highly-anticipated attractions to open in Singapore this year has just opened its doors to the public. Harry Potter: Visions of Magic, a multimedia exhibition, is taking place across a sprawling 40,000 square foot venue within Resorts World Sentosa.
Tickets are priced at $49 for adults and $39 for children, available for purchase on their official website.
Location: Forum B1, Resorts World Sentosa
Opening hours: 11:30am-8:30pm
58. F1 Simulator at Round2
Just a short walk from Bugis MRT, Round2, is a new private entertainment room that offers unlimited playtime on their F1 simulator.
Their VIP room is fully F1-themed, with very impressive race car decors. In addition to the usual Netflix and console games, there’s also an F1 simulator — yes, the kind with a steering wheel!
Their early bird promo allows you to book any rooms, including the VIP rooms (U.P $129) at $35 for 3 hours!
Location: 20 Haji Ln, #02-00, Singapore 189213
Opening hours: 11am-11pm
59. Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman Art from the Louvre
Around 100 Louvre masterpieces from three Islamic empires, many leaving Paris for the first time — and Singapore got them before anywhere else in Southeast Asia.
The Asian Civilisations Museum brings together works spanning the Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman empires at their 16th–18th century height, drawn from the Louvre’s Islamic art collection and joined by 30 ACM objects. Southeast Asian pieces are woven throughout to trace the trade routes and diplomatic crosscurrents that linked these worlds. The exhibition runs all the way to January 2027, spread across Level 2 and Level 3.
Free for Singaporeans and PRs.
Admission: Free for Singaporeans/PRs; from $25 for others
Date: 19 June 2026-24 January 2027
Location: Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Place, Singapore 179555
Opening hours:
Mon-Thu: 10am-7pm
Fri: 10am-9pm
Sat-Sun: 10am-7pm
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