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Museum

Museum is an urban planning area in Singapore's Central Region containing Fort Canning hill and the cluster of national museums and art schools around Bras Basah Road and Stamford Road.

Type
planning area
Status
Defined by a planning or statistical authority rather than a tier of government.

Museum is the Urban Redevelopment Authority's name for this planning area; it is a statistical designation rather than a name in everyday use. Residents and visitors are more likely to call the same ground Bras Basah, Bugis or Fort Canning.

What is recorded here

Counts describe this corpus, not the area as a whole.

  • Civic & heritage4
  • Parks & gardens1
  • Religious sites1
  • Transport gateways1
  • Restaurants1

Places in Museum

Parks & gardens

Fort Canning Park

Museum

Fort Canning Park is a hill park in central Singapore that has held a fourteenth-century settlement, a colonial governor's residence and a nineteenth-century fort, and now contains gardens, archaeological remains and a Second World War command bunker.

Civic & heritage

House of Tan Yeok Nee

Museum

House of Tan Yeok Nee is a gazetted national monument of Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.

Religious sites

Sri Thendayuthapani Temple

Museum

Sri Thendayuthapani Temple is a gazetted national monument of Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.

Civic & heritage

Macdonald House

Museum

Macdonald House is a gazetted national monument of Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.

Civic & heritage

Central Fire Station

Museum

Central Fire Station is a gazetted national monument of Singapore in Museum, Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.

Civic & heritage

Former Hill Street Police Station

Museum

Former Hill Street Police Station is a gazetted national monument of Singapore in Museum, Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.

Transport gateways

Dhoby Ghaut Interchange

Museum

Dhoby Ghaut Interchange is an MRT station in Museum, Singapore, recorded in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan rail layer.

Restaurants

True Blue Cuisine

Museum

True Blue Cuisine is a restaurant at 47/49 Armenian Street, in Museum, Singapore. An Armenian Street Peranakan restaurant next door to the Peranakan Museum, in a former Straits Chinese residence.

8 of 8 places shown on the map. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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