16 Things To Do With Kids In Bugis, Bras Basah And Little India, Singapore

18 September 2026 · 14 min read

Singapore keeps its national collections inside a twenty-minute walk. From the steps of the National Museum you can reach the Peranakan Museum, the Children's Museum, the National Gallery and the Civil Defence Heritage Gallery without crossing a main road twice, and a Singaporean family pays nothing at any of them. Six national museums, zero dollars, one NRIC.

That is the fact this guide is built on, and it is also the fact most guides to this part of town miss, because they are written for tourists who do pay. The Bugis, Bras Basah and Little India stretch has 121 Jungle listings, more than any other district left in this series, but most of them are dance studios, martial arts gyms and language schools that serve the whole island rather than the families living here. What the area genuinely does better than anywhere else is a museum day.

One correction before you plan. The Singapore Art Museum is no longer at 71 Bras Basah Road. Its galleries are at 39 Keppel Road in Tanjong Pagar Distripark, reached from Cantonment MRT, and unlike the national museums it charges citizens and PRs $15 an adult. Do not walk to Bras Basah expecting to find it.

This guide covers 16 places. Twelve cost nothing to enter for a Singaporean family and six of those are free for anyone. Read the closure dates before you set off, because four of these places are in the middle of a gallery change this autumn.

Six museums a Singaporean family walks into for free

Present a Pink or Blue NRIC at the counter and the permanent galleries are free at all six. Special exhibitions are ticketed separately and are flagged below where one is running.

1. National Museum of Singapore

Photo: National Museum of Singapore, Jungle listing

The National Museum turns 139 in October 2026, which makes it older than every other museum on this list by a wide margin. It sits in a domed neoclassical building on Stamford Road with a glass rotunda grafted onto the back, and the walk from Bras Basah MRT is 240 metres.

Time your visit. The Singapore History Gallery has been closed while the building undergoes restoration and upgrading works, and it reopens on 10 October 2026. The museum is marking its 139th anniversary at the same time, and admission is free for everyone, passport irrelevant, from 10 to 12 October 2026. The Once Upon a Tide exhibition on Basement 1 runs until 9 October 2026.

Why kids will love it: Quiet Mornings open the doors at 9am on the first Saturday and the first and third Thursday of each month, which is the only hour of the week when a four-year-old can run at the galleries without being shushed. Come then, or come at 10am on a weekday. Last admission is 6.30pm, so an after-school visit works.

View on Jungle: National Museum of Singapore
Website: National Museum of Singapore, admissions
Address: 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897. Google Maps
Opening hours: Daily 10am to 7pm. Opens 9am on Quiet Mornings. Last ticket sales 6pm, last admission 6.30pm.
Price: Free for Singapore citizens and PRs at all permanent galleries. Foreign residents and tourists $20 an adult and $15 concession, falling to $18 and $13 from 13 October 2026. Free for all children aged 6 and under.
Nearest MRT: Bras Basah (CC2), 240m. Bencoolen (DT21) 318m, Dhoby Ghaut (NS24/NE6/CC1) 346m.

2. Children's Museum Singapore

Photo: Children's Museum Singapore, Jungle listing

The only museum in Singapore built for children twelve and under, in the old Singapore Philatelic Museum building on Coleman Street. Entry runs on timed slots of one hour 45 minutes, booked in advance, and a ticket becomes invalid if you turn up more than ten minutes late.

This one is mid-change and the dates matter. Into the Hawkerverse on Level 2 closes on 28 September 2026. From 29 September to 12 November 2026 only Level 1 is open, admission is free for everyone, and you still have to book a slot online. The whole museum shuts on 5 to 7 October and again on 13 November 2026. The new exhibition opens on 14 November 2026 and normal fees resume.

Why kids will love it: Everything is at child height and nothing says do not touch. Book the 9am slot: the museum closes for cleaning from 12.45pm to 2pm, so the late-morning slot ends just as attention does. Bring socks and expect a queue at the 11am and 2pm entries.

View on Jungle: Children's Museum Singapore
Website: Children's Museum Singapore, ticketing
Address: 23-B Coleman Street, Singapore 179807. Google Maps
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 9am to 5.45pm. Closed Mondays. Closed for cleaning 12.45pm to 2pm. Entry slots at 9am, 11am, 2pm and 4pm.
Price: Free for Singaporeans and PRs. Foreign residents and tourists $10 a child, $15 an adult, $40 for two adults and two children. Free for everyone from 29 September to 12 November 2026.
Ages: 12 and under.
Nearest MRT: City Hall (EW13/NS25), 426m. Fort Canning (DT20) 487m.

3. Peranakan Museum

Photo: Peranakan Museum, Jungle listing

Three gallery levels in the old Tao Nan School, a 1912 building on Armenian Street, 338 metres from Bras Basah MRT. Level 1 is Origins, Level 2 is Family and Community Life, Level 3 is Fashion. The museum closed for major renovations in 2019 and reopened in 2023, so what is on the walls is recent.

Fridays it stays open until 9pm. Admission to all galleries stops 30 minutes before closing.

Why kids will love it: Three floors is a manageable number. Family and Community Life on Level 2 is the one that lands, because it is about weddings, food and growing up rather than dates on a label, and the Fashion floor above it is beadwork and embroidery at close range. Ninety minutes is enough, so pair it with the Children's Museum four minutes' walk away.

View on Jungle: Peranakan Museum
Website: Peranakan Museum, plan your visit
Address: 39 Armenian Street, Singapore 179941. Google Maps
Opening hours: Daily 10am to 7pm. Fridays 10am to 9pm. Gallery admission ends 30 minutes before closing.
Price: Free for Singaporeans and PRs at the permanent galleries. Foreign residents and tourists $12 an adult, $8 concession, free for children 6 and under.
Nearest MRT: Bras Basah (CC2), 338m. City Hall (EW13/NS25) 415m.

4. Asian Civilisations Museum

Photo: Asian Civilisations Museum, Jungle listing

The Empress Place Building by the river, laid out over three floors: Maritime Trade and the Tang Shipwreck on Level 1, Faith and Belief on Level 2, Material and Design on Level 3. It is 390 metres from Raffles Place MRT, which makes it the furthest of the six from the Bras Basah cluster.

Two practical notes. Anderson Bridge and Connaught Drive are closed to the public, so the river walk from Marina Bay no longer runs straight through. And the current special exhibition, Sacred Caves: Dunhuang, Buddhism, and the Silk Road, is ticketed separately even for citizens and PRs.

Why kids will love it: The Tang Shipwreck gallery is built around the cargo of a ninth-century ship pulled off the sea floor, and a room of objects recovered from a wreck lands with children in a way a display case does not. Go on a Friday evening when it runs to 9pm and the galleries are close to empty.

View on Jungle: Asian Civilisations Museum
Website: Asian Civilisations Museum, admissions
Address: 1 Empress Place, Singapore 179555. Google Maps
Opening hours: Daily 10am to 7pm. Friday 10am to 9pm. Gallery admission ends 30 minutes before closing.
Price: Free for Singaporeans and PRs at the permanent galleries. Foreign residents and tourists $15 an adult, $10 concession, free for children 6 and under. The Dunhuang special exhibition is $10 an adult for citizens and PRs with concessions free, and $25 and $20 for everyone else.
Nearest MRT: Raffles Place (EW14/NS26), 390m. Clarke Quay (NE5) 584m.

5. Indian Heritage Centre

A gallery at the Indian Heritage Centre. Photo: Indian Heritage Centre, Jungle listing

A glass-fronted building on Campbell Lane, 211 metres from Rochor MRT and in the middle of Little India rather than on the edge of it. It opened in May 2015 and holds five permanent galleries, built from heirlooms, jewellery, diaries and family photographs contributed by the community, starting in the first century and running to Indian Singapore today.

It is closed every Monday, including public holidays that fall on a Monday, which catches families out on long weekends more than any other rule in this guide.

Why kids will love it: The building lights up from the inside after dark, so the facade is the first exhibit before you have paid anything or shown anyone an NRIC. Inside, the objects are household things rather than state treasures, which makes them easier for a child to connect to. Do it before lunch and walk 300 metres to Tekka.

View on Jungle: Indian Heritage Centre
Website: Indian Heritage Centre, admission fees
Address: 5 Campbell Lane, Singapore 209924. Google Maps
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 6pm, last admission 5.30pm. Closed every Monday, including public holidays falling on a Monday.
Price: Free for Singaporeans and PRs. Foreign residents and tourists $10 an adult, $8 for seniors, students and persons with disabilities, free for children under 6. A caregiver accompanying a person with disabilities enters free.
Nearest MRT: Rochor (DT13), 211m. Little India (NE7/DT12) 319m.

6. Malay Heritage Centre

The Istana Kampong Gelam, which houses the Malay Heritage Centre. Photo: Marcin Konsek, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The newest thing on this list, because it reopened on 25 April 2026 after a revamp that kept it shut for years. The galleries sit inside the Istana Kampong Gelam, the palace built for the last Sultan of Singapore, and the refreshed permanent exhibition is called From Region to Home, Dari Rantau Ke Rumah.

The compound and the galleries keep different hours. The lawns and grounds are open 8am to 9pm, three hours longer than the museum inside them, and both are shut on Mondays.

Why kids will love it: The compound is a flat open green in front of a palace, and it stays open until 9pm, three hours after the galleries shut. Children who have had enough of exhibits can be let loose on the lawn while an adult finishes inside, then everyone walks out into Bussorah Street and Kampong Gelam. Come on a Saturday late afternoon and do the galleries first.

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Website: Malay Heritage Centre
Address: 85 Sultan Gate, Singapore 198501. Google Maps
Opening hours: Galleries Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 6pm, last admission 5.30pm. Compound Tuesday to Sunday 8am to 9pm. Both closed Mondays.
Price: Free for Singaporeans and PRs. Foreign residents and tourists $10 an adult, $8 for seniors, students and persons with disabilities, free for children under 6.
Nearest MRT: Bugis (EW12/DT14), 569m. Jalan Besar (DT22) 573m.

Six more places where nobody pays

No NRIC needed at any of these. Two of them are museums that happen to be free to everyone, one is a working fire station, one is a library with a children's biodiversity collection, and two are outdoors.

7. Keppel Centre for Art Education, National Gallery Singapore

Photo: Keppel Centre for Art Education, Jungle listing

The National Gallery charges other nationalities $20 to get in, but the children's wing is on the published list of spaces that need no ticket at all. Keppel Centre for Art Education sits on Level 1 of the City Hall Wing and it is free for everyone, tourists included, alongside the Level B1 Concourse Gallery, the ArchiGallery on Level 4, the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Gallery and the Padang deck on Level 6.

One caveat worth knowing. The UOB Southeast Asia Gallery is closed and does not reopen until late 2027, though works from the National Collection are hung across the rest of the building in the meantime.

Why kids will love it: Interactive rooms built around works in the national collection, including A Brush with Forest Fire, which is drawn from Raden Saleh's 1849 painting of a forest fire hanging elsewhere in the building, and Illuminate!, which runs in low light. The Centre shuts for cleaning from 12.30pm to 1pm and again from 3.30pm to 4pm, so do not arrive at 12.25pm. At full capacity the wait is around 30 minutes and the Gallery itself recommends weekdays.

View on Jungle: Keppel Centre for Art Education
Website: Keppel Centre for Art Education
Address: National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew's Road, Singapore 178957. Google Maps
Opening hours: Daily 10am to 7pm with the Gallery. Centre closed 12.30pm to 1pm and 3.30pm to 4pm for cleaning. Last entry 6.40pm.
Price: Free for everyone, no ticket required.
Nearest MRT: City Hall (EW13/NS25), 275m.

8. Civil Defence Heritage Gallery and Central Fire Station

Photo: Civil Defence Heritage Gallery, Jungle listing

A working fire station from 1909, red and white brick, with a gallery inside it tracing firefighting in Singapore from the late 1800s. The entrance faces Funan. SCDF publishes no admission charge and walk-ins are welcome.

The better half of this entry is the Fire Station Open House. Central Fire Station runs free guided tours on Saturday mornings in two slots, 9am to 9.50am or 10am to 10.50am, covering the emergency vehicles, a demonstration of officers putting on full protective gear, and equipment. Book at least three working days ahead. Central is not hosting on 10 October 2026. If a real emergency call comes in during your visit, the tour ends there.

Why kids will love it: Fire engines, at close range, with the crew explaining them. The gear demonstration is the bit that sticks. Book the 9am slot in the school holidays and get there early, because walk-in entry depends on spare slots.

View on Jungle: Civil Defence Heritage Gallery
Website: SCDF, visit SCDF establishments
Address: 62 Hill Street, Singapore 179367. Google Maps
Opening hours: Gallery Tuesday to Sunday, including public holidays, 10am to 5pm. Closed Mondays. Open House tours Saturdays at 9am and 10am.
Price: Free. SCDF lists no admission charge and walk-in visits are welcome.
Nearest MRT: City Hall (EW13/NS25), 426m. Fort Canning (DT20) 500m.

9. The Gem Museum

Photo: The Gem Museum, Jungle listing

A free museum 89 metres from Rochor MRT that almost nobody knows is there. It runs four stages of the gemstone story, formation, mining and extraction, cutting, then the trade, ending in a working showroom.

The rule that catches people: it does not accept walk-ins. You register a timeslot first, and the slots are hourly from 11am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday. Guided sessions run at set times on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the rest are self-led.

Why kids will love it: Rough stones next to cut ones, and a lapidary section that shows what a diamond looks like before anyone touches it. It is a 45-minute visit rather than an afternoon, which makes it a good first stop before Little India. Book the Tuesday or Thursday guided slot if your child asks questions.

View on Jungle: The Gem Museum
Website: The Gem Museum
Address: 9 Perak Road, Singapore 208130. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday, hourly slots from 11am to 5pm. Registration required, no walk-ins.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Rochor (DT13), 89m. Jalan Besar (DT22) 256m.

10. Central Library at the National Library Building

The entrance still reads Central Public Library. NLB renamed the branch Central Library. Photo: Central Library, Jungle listing

Sixteen storeys on Victoria Street, and the part that matters for a family is Basement One. Central Library is the lending library in that basement, and it holds the Children's Biodiversity Library by Singapore Oceanarium alongside collections on Singapore culture, literature and sustainability.

Note the name. The branch used to be called Central Public Library and NLB has dropped Public from its branch names, so older links to it now serve a 404 page. The Lee Kong Chian Reference Library upstairs keeps the same hours and is the quieter option for a teenager with homework.

Why kids will love it: A children's floor open eleven hours a day, seven days a week, with air conditioning and no entry fee, 360 metres from Bugis MRT. It is the single most useful rainy-hour answer in this district. The Level 1 bookdrop takes returns 24 hours a day, so a wasted trip is impossible.

View on Jungle: Central Library
Website: NLB, Central Library
Address: 100 Victoria Street, Singapore 188064. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 10am to 9pm. Closes 5pm on the eves of Christmas, New Year and Chinese New Year. Closed on public holidays.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Bugis (EW12/DT14), 360m. Bras Basah (CC2) 406m.

11. Fort Canning Park

Photo: Fort Canning Tree Tunnel, Jungle listing

Twenty-two hectares on a hill in the middle of the city, open 24 hours, free, and the only large green space in this guide. Fifteen heritage trees stand in it, and NParks calls its Spice Garden the most diverse in Singapore, with over 180 varieties of herbs and spices.

There are three car parks: A with 46 car lots, B with 36, and C with 60 car lots and five coach lots.

Why kids will love it: The tree tunnel, a sunken spiral staircase with a ring of green overhead, is the one spot every child wants to stand in, and it is a short walk from the Fort Canning MRT exit. After that, let them crush a curry leaf in the Spice Garden and smell their fingers. Go before 10am or after 5pm, because the hill is a climb and long stretches of it have no shade.

View on Jungle: Fort Canning Tree Tunnel
Website: NParks, Fort Canning Park
Address: Bounded by Hill Street, Canning Rise, Clemenceau Avenue and River Valley Road. Tree tunnel at 51 Canning Rise, Singapore 179872. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours.
Price: Free. Car park charges apply.
Nearest MRT: Fort Canning (DT20). Dhoby Ghaut (NS24/NE6/CC1) and Clarke Quay (NE5) also serve the park.

12. Former House of Tan Teng Niah and the Little India streets

Photo: Former House of Tan Teng Niah, Jungle listing

The rainbow villa on Kerbau Road is the last surviving Chinese villa in Little India, built in 1900 for Tan Teng Niah, a towkay who ran sweet factories along Serangoon Road and a rubber smoke-house behind the house, fuelled by the sugarcane waste from his own sweets. It has eight rooms, and the second storey overhangs the first to form a five-foot way.

It is a private building. There is no interior, no ticket and no opening time. What you are here for is the paintwork and the streets around it: Kerbau Road, Buffalo Road, Campbell Lane and the flower stalls on Serangoon Road.

Why kids will love it: It is the brightest building most children will see all week, and at 124 metres from Little India MRT it works as the first stop of a walk rather than a destination of its own. Carry on to the flower stalls on Campbell Lane, where garlands are strung by hand in front of you, then eat at Tekka 300 metres away. The whole loop takes an hour with a five-year-old.

View on Jungle: Former House of Tan Teng Niah
Website: Roots, Former House of Tan Teng Niah
Address: 37 Kerbau Road, Singapore 219168. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open street, exterior only. No interior access.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Little India (NE7/DT12), 124m.

Three worth paying for when the galleries are finished

13. AIRZONE, City Square Mall

Photo: AIRZONE, Jungle listing

Nets strung across a shopping mall atrium from Level 2 up to Level 6, with slides connecting one level to the next and a ball pit suspended in the middle of it. The operator calls it the world's first indoor atrium net playground and there is nothing else like it in the country.

There is no minimum age. What there is instead is a set of size rules: everyone must be under 120kg and able to climb and walk on the nets unassisted. A child under 115cm needs a paying adult inside the nets with them. A child between 115cm and 135cm needs an adult supervising from outside. Closed-toe shoes only, and no loose items, which includes jibbitz on Crocs.

Why kids will love it: Walking on a net six storeys above a mall floor is the closest most children get to walking on the moon, which is exactly how the operator describes it. Arrive 20 minutes before the session for the safety briefing. Buy the weekday Two-to-Play if you are bringing one child, because it is cheaper than two singles.

Book on Jungle: AIRZONE
Website: AIRZONE
Address: Level 2 North Atrium, City Square Mall, 180 Kitchener Road, Singapore 208539. Google Maps
Opening hours: Ticket sales from 9.45am daily. First session 10am. Last session 7.20pm off peak, 8.30pm peak.
Price: $27.90 a person for a standard session, online only. Two-to-Play $55 for two people in the same session, weekdays only, excluding public and school holidays. Four-session pass $100, eight-session pass $168, both valid a year and usable by anyone.
Nearest MRT: Farrer Park (NE8), 282m.

14. Climb Central Funan

The climbing wall at Funan. Photo: cattan2011, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Roped climbing and auto-belays on Basement 2 of Funan, 337 metres from City Hall MRT. No booking is taken and none is needed: Climb Central Funan runs on walk-ins only.

Entry requirements are firm. A child must be four years old by actual date of birth rather than calendar year, weigh at least 16kg and stand at least a metre tall. Children aged four to twelve must be accompanied by an adult of eighteen or over, even if that adult never leaves the ground. A youth cannot supervise a child.

Prices went up on 1 May 2026 and Funan is now one of the two dearer outlets, alongside The Kallang.

Why kids will love it: Auto-belays mean a seven-year-old can climb a full wall without a parent who knows how to belay, and the first-timer set includes the gear and the briefing. Weekday evenings are quietest. Book nothing, just turn up, and give it two hours.

Book on Jungle: Climb Central Funan
Website: Climb Central, 2026 rates
Address: Funan, 107 North Bridge Road, #B2-19/21, Singapore 179105. Google Maps
Opening hours: Weekdays 11am to 11pm. Weekends and public holidays 9am to 9pm.
Price: First-Timer Set $38.20 an adult, $32.70 a youth, $44.70 for an adult plus one child, $72 for an adult plus two children. Returning climbers at Funan $31.40 an adult, $21.80 a youth, $37.10 for an adult with a child, $19.70 a child add-on, plus a one-off $10.90 registration fee. Shoe hire $6, harness $4.10, both together $9.
Ages: 4 and up, minimum 16kg and 1m tall.
Nearest MRT: City Hall (EW13/NS25), 337m.

15. Wild Rice @ Funan

The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre at Wild Rice @ Funan. Photo: Wild Rice, Jungle listing

A theatre on Level 4 of Funan, and the company behind Singapore's longest-running family pantomime. Two family shows are in the diary. Monkey Goes West, the musical retelling of Journey to the West, runs from 12 November 2026 in The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre. Goldilocks and the Three Wild Boars, a Little Wild production written for young audiences, runs 27 February to 14 March 2027.

Check what is on before you book, because the rest of the season is adult work. The Radicalisation of Mrs. Mary Lim-Rodrigues runs 24 September to 10 October 2026 and Fat Kids Are Harder To Kidnap runs 16 to 18 and 23 to 25 October 2026. Neither is a children's show.

Why kids will love it: Monkey Goes West has wushu, a fire-breathing Red Boy and a cast of children drawn from Wild Rice's own First Stage programme, so some of the performers are the same age as the audience. Book the November run early. The 2014 premiere at Victoria Theatre played to sold-out houses and won three Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards.

View on Jungle: Wild Rice
Website: Wild Rice, what's on
Address: Funan, 107 North Bridge Road, #04-08, Singapore 179105. Google Maps
Opening hours: Performance times vary by production and are published on each show page.
Price: Contact provider for pricing. Wild Rice publishes no standing rate card and prices each production separately at booking.
Nearest MRT: City Hall (EW13/NS25), 337m.

The lunch stop

16. Tekka Centre

Photo: Nick-D, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Blk 665 Buffalo Road, 143 metres from Little India MRT, built in 1980 and the second largest hawker centre in Singapore by NEA's own count: 119 cooked food stalls and 284 market stalls, more than 400 in total. The wet market on the ground floor is the loudest and the best of them.

Check the date before you go. NEA closes the centre for spring cleaning on 21 to 22 September 2026 and again on 30 November to 1 December 2026.

Why kids will love it: Roti prata made in front of them, thosai the size of a forearm, and sugarcane juice pressed while they watch. A plate of biryani feeds a small child and an adult. Come before noon, because the queues at the well-known stalls run past thirty minutes by one o'clock and the seating fills with them.

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Website: NEA hawker centre records, data.gov.sg
Address: Blk 665 Buffalo Road, Singapore 210665. Google Maps
Opening hours: Stall hours vary. Most cooked food stalls trade from breakfast to mid-afternoon. Closed 21 to 22 September and 30 November to 1 December 2026 for spring cleaning.
Price: Free to enter. A hawker plate runs roughly $4 to $8.
Nearest MRT: Little India (NE7/DT12), 143m.

Enrichment classes in Bugis, Bras Basah and Little India you can book on Jungle

This district carries 121 Jungle listings, the most of any left in this series, and most of them are classes rather than places to visit. These are the ones with a branch inside the three precincts.

• Tree Art. Art classes for ages 3 to 18 at City Square Mall, #04-18, 180 Kitchener Road.
• Dancepointe Academy. Ballet and dance at City Square Mall, #08-02/03.
• City Ballet Academy. Ballet at 36 Prinsep Street, #02-01.
• All That Jazz Dance Academy. Jazz and performance training at 36 Prinsep Street.
• MADDspace. Music, art, drama and dance for ages 3 to 18 at GR.iD, 1 Selegie Road, #02-12.
• Por Vida Skateboarding. Skate coaching at GR.iD, 1 Selegie Road, B1-11.
• L5 by O School. Hip hop and street dance at 1 Selegie Road, #05-01/02.
• Band Academy Singapore. Band and instrument tuition at Waterloo Centre, 261 Waterloo Street, #02-10.
• Skylace Language School. Japanese, Korean and other languages at 261 Waterloo Street, #01-09.
• Art Wonderland. Art studio at 37 Middle Road, #03-00, UWEEI Building.
• Play By Ear Music School. Music lessons at Bugis Village, 245A/B Victoria Street, Level 2.
• Boulder Movement. Bouldering at Bugis+, 201 Victoria Street, #05-07. A second gym sits at Tekka Place, 2 Serangoon Road, #02-12.
• Gayathri Dance Academy. Bharatanatyam at 2A Dalhousie Lane in Little India.
• Sarva Fine Arts. Indian classical arts at 119B Serangoon Road.
• ACTFA School of Dance. Dance and performing arts at 66B Race Course Road.
• Ground Up Climbing Gym. Climbing at CSC @ Tessensohn, 60 Tessensohn Road, Level 2.
• Planet Bowl. Bowling at 60 Tessensohn Road.
• The Mind Cafe. Board games at 30 Prinsep Street, #01-01, and a flagship at 60A Prinsep Street.
• Books Kinokuniya. Bookshop at Bugis Junction, 200 Victoria Street, #03-09.

At a glance

One more thing

Do the free museums on a weekday if you can, because the Keppel Centre and the Children's Museum both queue at weekends and both say so themselves.

Looking for somewhere else in the city? Browse things to do with kids in the central region on Jungle.