Singapore Discovery Centre

If you are in search of a place where history meets the future. If you want to make this family weekend exciting, educational, and meaningful at the same time. If you love to spend time with your nearest and dearest while playing, overcoming various obstacles, exploring something new, and making new findings – the Singapore Discovery Centre is your ideal destination. We invite you to embark on a virtual journey of this kids-friendly hub of discoveries, science, technology, play, and excitement together with BusyKidd, and you will see everything for yourself.

How to get to the Singapore Discovery Centre? What to do at the Singapore Discovery Centre? Is the Singapore Discovery Centre free? It’s time to find answers to any questions you may have.

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Singapore Discovery Centre Story

The Singapore Discovery Centre (SDC) by Defense Collective Singapore is not an ordinary museum but an edutainment centre. SDC is one of Singapore’s most popular tourist attractions and kids’ favourite places. What makes it so outstanding? It tells the fascinating history of Singapore in an engaging and inspiring way, evoking the desire to learn more about the country and its people. Besides, the centre’s multi-sensory learning experience motivates the impulse to contribute to Singapore’s future and make it even brighter for everyone. This Discovery Centre in Singapore attracts all explorers, young and young-hearted, with its breathtaking exhibitions and exciting things to do.

The Singapore Discovery Centre was officially opened on November 23, 1996. For almost thirty years, it has welcomed its guests into the world of Singapore’s challenging history and dreams.

Did you know that the Singapore Discovery Centre logo sign is the most popular place to take photos at the centre? And that is not surprising. SDC’s logo is a graphic representation of its mission. The symbol demonstrates that you can see, hear, and feel a lot at the centre. ‘Hear the past. Touch the present. See the future.’

The Singapore Discovery Centre even has its mascot, a cute lion named SingaPaw, who engages all visitors to learn more about Singapore’s history and contribute to its prosperous future.

So, are you ready for our virtual adventure?

Singapore Discovery Centre Attractions

As we’ve already mentioned, the Singapore Discovery Centre is not an ordinary museum. Of course, it has exciting exhibitions and many fascinating stories about Singapore and its people. However, get ready to be impressed by a choice of various family-friendly activities – to learn something new, relax, demonstrate your skills and acquire new ones, explore and discover, and enjoy numerous precious moments with your nearest and dearest.

Archery Tag

Teamwork, strategy, and quick reflexes – that’s what a breathtaking game of Archery Tag requires. The arrows have foam tips, so the environment is totally kid-friendly. Older players can choose a Team Play, while Target Shooting would be ideal for kids 5 years old and above and for first-time visitors who would like to get introduced to archery.

Black Lake Facility

Singapore Discovery Centre welcomes all the bravest ones to embark on a multi-sensorial escape room adventure. By the way, the Singapore Discovery Center escape room is the city’s largest and most immersive escape room experience. Two floors with 13 rooms and 4 chapters of the story – can you imagine the level of excitement you can get here?

The Armoury, The Medical Centre, The Research Lab, and The Basement – choose your level of thrill factor and difficulty, and let the adventure begin!

Black Lake Laser Battlefield

It is an immersive laser tag arena that welcomes all families, friends, and teams to try something new and truly mind-blowing.

Singapore Discovery Centre Laser Tag is your ticket to a journey to different times and dimensions. Get ready to meet various creatures on your way, overcome challenges, face your fears, and have the most fun time ever.

Laser Tag at Singapore Discovery Centre offers several game types:

• Solo Free-For-All
• Elimination Free-For-All
• Colour Ranked Free-For-All
• Midnight Madness Free-For-All
• Midnight Madness Team
• Standard Team
• Human Flag

Crossfire Paintball

Singapore Discovery Centre Crossfire Paintball is the only multi-tiered paintball arena in Singapore. The arena replicates harsh natural terrain and battle sites, ensuring a truly immersive experience. Take your friends and family – and get the most out of this exciting and challenging game.

iWerks Theatre

Singapore Discovery Centre iWerks Theatre is ready to impress and inspire you with fascinating 2D and 3D giant-screen movies. Discovery Center Movie Theatre features 344 cozy seats, a five-story high screen, and an excellent sound system, ensuring visitors have the most realistic movie experience. Choose your kids’ favourite cartoons, book your tickets, take your seat, relax, and enjoy your time at Singapore Discovery Centre’s cinema.

As of today, the Singapore Discovery Centre movie tickets price is $10 on weekdays and weekends.

Sandbox

Sandbox is a permanent exhibit gallery about how Singapore has built its defense and security systems, overcome various challenges, and developed over the years. Learn more about our nation and become even closer to our people. Try to deal with a hybrid danger and even join a futuristic battle command centre to defend your country against various threats. See how everyone can affect the future.

Through the Lens of Time

Video Credit: Singapore Discovery Centre

From The Beginnings through The Turning Point and Against All Odds to Building Our Foundation, this immersive permanent exhibition takes you on a meaningful journey from the past to the present. Look at Singapore through the Lens of Time, hear many fascinating stories, and uncover some exciting mysteries.

XD Theatre Ride

Have a seat, take a deep breath, and prepare for a one-of-a-kind experience! Enjoy a multi-sensory adventure with a 4D simulation ride using the unique Mad Wave Motion technology. Take a Dino Safari, embark on a Sky Hunt journey, ride around with Pinocchio, explore Machinarum, and even more.

Singapore Discovery Centre Tours

Plunge into the eventful history of Singapore with the centre’s guided tours. Listen to exciting stories, discover many unknown facts, and explore our city’s past, present, and future. By the way, what are the fun facts about Singapore and how are they connected with the Singapore Discovery Centre? Do you know any? SDC’s highly dedicated guides will gladly share a lot of them.

Permanent Exhibits Gallery – Guided Tour

Take an immersive journey from the past to the present of our country to create a better future for it. Tour through the evolution of Singapore from its early days under the rule of the Malay Kingdom to a modern high-tech city. Feel our country’s spirit.

• Weekdays: 2 PM and 4 PM
• Weekends, Public and School Holidays​: 12 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM

Eco-Sustainability Tours

Take an eco-tour around the Singapore Discovery Centre. Admire its incredible solar panel installation. Explore the centre’s urban garden with a wide variety of herbs and greens. The tour is fully sensorial, so young explorers will definitely enjoy it. Get ready to learn, see, touch, smell, and even taste a lot!

• Every Sunday: 10:30 AM, 4:30 PM

SAFTI MI Bus Tour

Take the SAFTI MI Bus to tour the 88-hectare training ground for future officers. Peek at the routine of an officer cadet and learn more about the importance of SAF.

The tour is free. It operates on a first-come, first-serve basis.

• Monday to Friday: 12 PM to 2 PM (SDC to Jurong Point Ferry Service); 3 PM
• Weekends, Public and School Holidays: 1 PM, 3 PM, 5 PM

Please check the information on Discovery Centre Singapore tour prices on the centre’s official website.

Singapore Discovery Centre Dining And Shopping

Of course, no perfect day is possible without a good lunch and buying something special to take home to remember your incredible experience at the centre. Well, of course, the Singapore Discovery Centre has a lovely café to refresh yourself and a lively shop with a great choice of souvenirs and gifts.

Bottle Tree Cafe Restaurant

Singapore Discovery Centre’s Bottle Tree Café Restaurant is a place to treat yourself to authentic Asian and local tze-char-style food. Moreover, it overlooks the beautiful Discovery Lake, creating a charming ambiance. It is a great spot to take a break from the tour and enjoy delicious cuisine.

• Monday to Wednesday: 9:30 AM to 6 PM
• Thursday and Friday: 9:30 AM to 7 PM
• Weekends, PHs and School Term Holidays: 10 AM to 8 PM

shop@SDC

Here, you can find many Singapore-related items, including books, toys, apparel, and more. The choice is wide, so everyone will easily get something unique regardless of age and taste.

• Weekdays: 12 PM to 6 PM
• Weekends, PHs and School Term Holidays: 11 AM to 7 PM

Singapore Discovery Centre Events

Singapore Discovery Centre often serves as a venue for the city’s bright events. We bet many of you have heard (and probably not only heard) of Singapore Discovery Centre’s iconic Harrowing Halloween with Haunted Houses, an Interactive Scare Zone, and lots of scary fun and terrifying surprises.

The centre is also known for its family-friendly BMT @ SDC event, Sustainability Fest, SingaPaw Saturdays, various celebrations, and more.

You can rent the Singapore Discovery Centre facilities for team building, corporate events, retreats, training, meetings, community clubs, carnivals, seminars, family days, etc.

Singapore Discovery Centre facilities include:

• Indoor Venues
  • Discovery Hall
  • Classrooms
  • Function Room
  • iWerks Theatre
• Outdoor Venues
  • Bandstand at Discovery Lake
  • Concourse
  • Discovery Land

Singapore Discovery Centre Packages

Singapore Discovery Centre offers exclusive packages to make your special day even happier and more memorable. Organize an exciting party for your little one. Enjoy all the centre’s breathtaking attractions at a pleasant price. And even have a wedding of your dreams.

Amazing Attractions Packages

A visit to Singapore Discovery Centre’s permanent exhibitions, XD Theatre Ride, a movie ticket, popcorn, lunch, and even more – Amazing Attractions Packages include all of this. You can choose from Deluxe Package, Marksman Package, and Agent Package.

For a minimum of 20 persons.

Kids Party Packages

Discovery Centre Singapore can’t wait to organize the brightest party for your little discoverer. There are two variants of SDC Kids Party Packages.

• ROARsome Party Package (for up to 10 pax) includes a customized e-invitation card, use of party space for 2 hours, birthday backdrop, 1-hour session of the escape room or laser tag, snacks, drinks, and more.
• SuPAWrior Party Package (for up to 10 pax) includes a customized e-invitation card, use of party space for 3 hours, birthday backdrop and decorations, 1-hour session of the escape room or laser tag or NERF (you can choose two activities), Meet & Greet with the SingaPaw mascot, and more.

Wedding Package

Spend your most special day with your nearest and dearest in the welcoming environment of the Singapore Discovery Centre. Use one of the centre’s venues and VIP Lounge for 6 hours. Enjoy an Eight-Course Chinese Set menu and free-flowing soft drinks and tea. Wedding decorations, fresh floral centrepieces, and customized e-invitation cards are also included. As well as many pleasant surprises for a new family.

Please check Singapore Discovery Centre packages prices on the centre’s official website.

Singapore Discovery Centre Learning

Singapore Discovery Centre offers exciting learning programmes for explorers and discoverers of all ages.

• N.E.mation! – an annual animation competition. Gather in a group of 3 or 4 and create your storyboards (Student Category) or animation clips (Open Category) on the topic ‘Together We Keep Singapore Strong.’
• Singapore Discovery Centre Preschool Programmes – Oh What Farm! This preschool programme offers exciting, hands-on, enriching activities for the youngest ones. Kids learn about food, its importance, farming processes, and more.
• Singapore Discovery Centre Primary Programmes – learn about Singapore and its history in an interactive and engaging way. Primary programmes include exciting tours, fun games, bright celebrations, and more.
• Singapore Discovery Centre Secondary Programmes – spend fun and educational time while learning, playing, creating, innovating, and more.
• Singapore Discovery Centre Post Secondary Programmes – become a young ethnographer, overcome a virtual escape room, learn to work in groups, and more.
• Singapore Discovery Centre Educators Programmes – take your team and enjoy a Heritage & Food Trail tour, solve the mysteries of the escape room, and spend a thrilling day together at Singapore Discovery Centre.
• Singapore Discovery Centre Corporate Programmes – gather your colleagues and pass an Escape Quest, enjoy a thematic tour, overcome a Digital Defence Challenge, and more.

Young Explorers Discovery Camp

Singapore Discovery Centre invites all young explorers to its one-day kids’ camp. It is a fun and educational way to spend a memorable day while learning more about Singapore and its history, enjoying various activities, developing social skills, and more.

Young Explorers Discovery Camp programme includes:

• ‘Gear Up! Survival Skills’
• ‘Through the Lens of Time’ Guided Tour
• Eco-Sustainability Tour
• Other Activities, such as Laser Tag, Low-Element Activities, Camp Reflection, and not only

• 1-Day Camp: 9 AM to 6 PM
• Age: Recommended for children 7-10 years old

Singapore Discovery Centre Visitors Information

Singapore Discovery Centre Location

Singapore Discovery Centre Address: 510 Upper Jurong Rd, Singapore 638365

Singapore Discovery Centre Opening Hours

SG Discovery Centre Opening Hours:

• Weekdays: 12 PM to 6 PM
• Weekends, Public & School Term Holidays: 11 AM to 7 PM

Singapore Discovery Centre Admission

Singapore Discovery Centre Tickets Price For Permanent Exhibits:

• Singapore/Permanent Resident: Free
• Standard:
  • Adult (13+): $10
  • Child (3-12 years old): $8

Singapore Discovery Centre Tickets Price For Tours:

• Guided Tour
  • Standard:
    • Adult (13+): $8
    • Child (3-12 years old): $8
• Living Green Eco Tour
  • Standard:
    • Member: $12/person
    • Non-Member: $15/person
• SAFTI MI Bus Tour: Free

Please visit the official website for SDC’s attractions admission fee.

Singapore Discovery Centre Parking

Parking at the Singapore Discovery Centre is administered through an electronic parking system.

Singapore Discovery Centre Parking Rates:

• Car
  • 9 AM to 10 PM: $1.40 per 60 minutes
  • 10 PM to 9 AM (next day): $2.10 per 60 minutes
• Motorcycle
  • 9 AM to 10 PM: $0.20 per 60 minutes
  • 10 PM to 9 AM (next day): $0.30 per 60 minutes

mySDC App

mySDC App helps make your children’s visit to the Singapore Discovery Centre even more exciting and memorable. Install the app, scan the QR code at various exhibits – and plunge into the augmented reality world.

Singapore Discovery Centre FAQ

Which ministry is the Singapore Discovery Centre under?

SDC is under the Ministry of Defence of Singapore.

How do I go to the Discovery Center?

You can get to the Singapore Discovery Centre by MRT, bus, car, and on foot.

Singapore Discovery Centre nearest MRT station: Joo Koon MRT station

You can get from Joo Koon MRT to the Singapore Discovery Centre by bus service 182 or 182M or on foot (it will take about 10 minutes).

Is the Singapore Discovery Centre free?

Singapore Discovery Centre offers Singaporeans free admission to its permanent exhibits. For more details, please visit the centre’s official website.

Official Website: Singapore Discovery Centre

Singapore Discovery Centre Map

So, have you got enough inspiration? Singapore Discovery Centre, with its interesting and significant exhibits, exciting things to do, fascinating learning programmes, and lots of surprises for visitors of all ages, is a must-visit place for all Singaporeans and city guests. Grab your family and enjoy your day at this welcoming edutainment centre. We can’t wait for your Singapore Discovery Centre reviews.

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