Premium launch object
Singapore Memory Map Print
A framed, hand-illustrated map of the Singapore locals remember: old shopfronts, food routes, and the small landmarks people still navigate by.
- Maps
- Neighbourhoods
- Art print
S$95View story
Discover | Explore | Celebrate
Discover Singapore. Walk its stories. Carry one home.
Every kopitiam cup, corridor, and shop sign here holds a memory. Walk the neighbourhoods with a storyteller who knows them, then bring home an object that keeps the story alive — in your language.
Visitor guide
First launch
Three objects only, each with a story behind it.
We begin small on purpose: one map, one foodways object, one collectible. Each is researched with the community, credited to its makers, and built to be kept — because a souvenir should say more than “I was here.”
Food heritage gift
Singapore Foodways Tea Towel or Coaster Set
Hawker breakfasts, enamel cups, and kopitiam tiles, pressed into linen you will actually use. A shared meal you can fold and take home.
- Foodways
- Hawker culture
- Home
S$28–S$48View story
Entry collectible
Heritage Icon Keychain Series
Small enough for a pocket, specific enough to start a conversation: enamel icons of estate signs, shophouse tiles, and kopitiam cups.
- Icons
- Souvenirs
- Collectible
S$14–S$22View story
Featured story
The Alexandra Village Workshops Behind Your Hawker Lunch
The uncle who fixed your carburettor and the auntie who fried your noodles have been neighbours for forty years. Step inside one of Singapore's most quietly layered places — before it changes again.
Read the story
Walks & experiences
Tours bring you into the story. Gifts let you carry it home.
Small groups, unhurried pace, guides who grew up with these streets. Over forty routes aligned with the National Heritage Board's trails — here are three to start with.
2.5 hours
Singapore Foodways Heritage Walk
Eat your way through Chinatown, Telok Ayer, and Maxwell with someone who can tell you why the kopi tastes like that, and who first made it so.
- From
- From S$68
- Best for
- Visitors, families, corporate teams
2 hours
Queenstown and Tanglin Halt Memory Walk
Walk an old estate through the eyes of the people who lived there: hand-painted shop signs, vanished cinemas, and corridors full of first homes.
- From
- From S$55
- Best for
- Residents and first-time visitors
Half-day
Private Heritage Tour and Gift Bundle
Your own storyteller, your own pace, and a curated heritage gift set waiting at the end — so your guests leave holding the story, not just photos of it.
- From
- From S$160 per guest
- Best for
- Hotels, visiting families, MICE groups
Voices from the walks
The stories stay with people. So do the objects.
“I have lived in Queenstown for thirty years and still learned things about my own block. My daughter finally understands why I keep talking about the old emporium.”
Mdm Tan, 58
Queenstown and Tanglin Halt Memory Walk, with her daughter
“We came for the food tour and left with a map print and three keychains. It is the only souvenir from our trip that people actually ask about back home.”
Yuki & Daichi
Visitors from Osaka, Singapore Foodways Heritage Walk
“Our clients expected another gift basket. Instead they got a hosted walk through Kampong Glam and a gift box with real stories inside. Weeks later, they were still talking about it.”
Marcus L.
Regional events lead, corporate tour and gift bundle
Built for many ways of caring
However you love Singapore, there's a way in.
For Locals
Walk the estate you grew up in with fresh eyes. The void decks, shop signs, and breakfast rituals you took for granted are the heritage.
For Visitors
See the Singapore that never makes the postcard, and take home a gift that explains this city better than the skyline ever could.
For Schools
Turn National Education into a conversation. Story cards, walking routes, and interview prompts that get students asking their grandparents questions.
For Corporate Gifts
Give clients a piece of Singapore with a story attached. Custom bundles, hosted walks, and workshops your guests will actually remember.
For overseas visitors
Plan your Singapore story in your language.
Heritage is easier to feel in the language you think in. Our guides pair walks with gift ideas and simple planning notes for a short stay — in English, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesia, Korean, Thai, and Chinese.
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Tours & gifts in English
United States, Australia, United Kingdom, India and global visitors
日本語
シンガポールのお土産と文化体験
Japan
Bahasa Indonesia
Oleh-oleh dan tur heritage Singapura
Indonesia
한국어
싱가포르 기념품과 헤리티지 투어
South Korea
ภาษาไทย
ของฝากและทัวร์มรดกสิงคโปร์
Thailand
中文
新加坡伴手礼与文化路线
Mainland China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Explore by neighbourhood
Memory lives street by street.
Singapore doesn't remember in monuments — it remembers in estates, corridors, and coffee shops. Start with one of six neighbourhoods, each with its own stories, walks, objects, and memories shared by the people who live there.
Queenstown
Singapore's first satellite town, told through estates, markets, libraries, and resident memory.
Tanglin Halt
A changing estate where old routines, shops, corridors, and first homes still carry a trace.
Chinatown
Clan houses, shophouses, trades, rituals, food streets, and the old city as living practice.
Joo Chiat-Katong
Tiles, foodways, Peranakan memory, family businesses, and coastal histories in one walkable district.
Bukit Brown
Cemetery heritage, biodiversity, names on stones, and the ethics of walking a place of memory.
Kampong Glam
Textiles, faith, trade, music, food, and Malay-Arab cultural layers around the old port city.
- Foodways
- Old Trades
- Objects
- Places
- Practices
- Walks
singaporeheritage.sg
Designed in Singapore. Rooted in community stories.
Your grandmother's recipe. The provision shop that closed. The route you walked to school. These are exactly the stories this archive exists for — share one, and it may shape the next walk or object we make.