Singapore Live Turtles and Tortoises Museum


If you were to check any official website of Singapore, you will find this Singapore attraction hardly being mentioned. It’s the ‘Live Turtles and Tortoises Museum’, the one and only unique museum of such kind in the world.

Tucked inside the Singapore Chinese Garden, the ‘Live Turtles and Tortoises Museum’ is a very small museum (or I would rather call it garden). It started off as the owner’s passion and  hobby of collecting turtles and tortoises and soon his collections grow to over 1,000 live turtles and tortoises with over 50 species in total.

The creatures are mostly kept in fish tanks or concrete enclosures in a man made garden setting. Inside the garden, there is a swing, a pond, a replicate of merlion statue and small bridge. I must say that the garden is not too well kept.
Some turtles are free to roam around in the pond and on the bridge whereas the more precious species are kept in enclosures.

This place has a 7 yr old mutant turtle with 2 heads and 6 legs, rather unusual. The owner found it 7 years ago inflicted with diseases and dying. It was the owner’s tender loving care that managed to keep the turtle survived till today,  amazing!

Unless you are a tortoise lover, I find the entry fee of $5 per adult and $3 for kids (under 6) to the museum not justifiable. It should be made free and perhaps just to collect a donation to help in the upkeeping of the museum.

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