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Experience Asian Trading Routes of Ancient Times

We are regular visitors to Singapore (also having lived and worked there for several years) and are... read more

Reviewed January 20, 2020
Demonflag
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Melbourne, Australia
Worth seeing!

We saw this with the Aquarium the day we went. Worth seeing and interesting to learn more about... read more

Reviewed January 10, 2020
Patmar2501
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Newcastle, Australia
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Reviewed October 9, 2019 via mobile

Its a place co-located with SEA aquarium; offers great insight in our history and evolvement of the trade routes alongside giving a brief on maritime activities! Get clicked in costumes of the golden era sailors!

Date of experience: October 2019
2  Thank Excursion31974983236
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Reviewed September 13, 2019

We spent a week in Singapore and had a hard time finding anything that wasn't done well or well maintained. This museum fits right in with Singapore's fine reputation. It's not a dusty collection of glass boxes -- it provides a maritime history of Singapore and its culture. It was worth our time on a sunny day, however, if you get caught with a rainy day in Singapore and need to get yourself out of the malls, this is a good bet - plus it's close to the aquarium which is another great bet on a rainy or sunny day.

Date of experience: August 2019
3  Thank Scott G
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Reviewed September 13, 2019 via mobile

This museum seems to have a lot of filler. I’m glad I went but if I was on a budget I might have been a little disappointed! If boats and trade is your thing it’s a must do...

Date of experience: September 2019
Thank Dare C
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Reviewed September 13, 2019

We went to this museum as my son wanted to experience being attacked by pirates. That section of the museum was actually rather tame, but the rest of it was great! The 4D hurricane experience was our favourite, especially ending up seeing the real sharks!

Date of experience: August 2019
2  Thank DomPom F
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Reviewed September 12, 2019 via mobile

This was a place that we never expected to visit. We went to Sentosa Island looking to visit the SEA Aquarium and when we got a ticket, it had a writing saying that it was also a ticket to the Marine Experiential Museum.

When we were about to head in, we asked an attendant if we could just “skip ahead” to the SEA Aquarium. We were told to go to this museum first because it connects to the SEA Aquarium.

I was interested when I saw the contents of the museum. It features essentially relics from maritime history centered around Singapore. There were coins and currencies used from the bygone age as well as replicas of clothing worn by people of the day.

This museum’s flaw is the fact that visitors are told to go here first because it connects to the SEA Aquarium. If someone was wanting to go to SEA Aquarium like we were that day, this put the museum in a position where it is “in the way”. You go through here as a chore, because it’s on the way to SEA Aquarium not because you want to.

Those with wheelchairs and strollers take note. There is a portion in a museum where the visitor have to take steep wooden stairs in one of the exhibits if they wanted to go to the floor. These steps are difficult to traverse. You have to go all the way back to the entrance, go down an elevator and go through doors which are only accessible through a museum employee tapping you in.

This place would have been better if it was its own thing rather than being positioned as something “on the way” to the SEA Aquarium. It would allow people to focus and enjoy the museum for what it is rather than making people want to rush to the SEA Aquarium.

Date of experience: September 2019
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