Searching for new attractions for children? Teaching kids about dollars and cents sounds like a dry weekend chore, but what if we told you there’s a new interactive town where they can pan for gold, dodge scammers, and print their own cash? The epic exhibition is called Money Town.
Wonderfully, the Children’s Museum Singapore is launching Money Town: Make It Count! this weekend on November 14. The new exhibition is designed for kids aged five to nine, alongside a dedicated sensory playspace called Money Barn for toddlers aged 48 months and below. Here’s what to expect.
Money Town kids exhibition
Money Town: Make It Count!, presented in collaboration with UOB Foundation, runs all the way until January 2029. Interestingly, CMSG teamed up with Austria’s FRida & freD museum to build this exhibition to make sure learning about money is actually fun. Plus, it’s designed with the help of parents, teachers, community groups, and local kids.
Once the kids step into the museum, they get a smart RFID-enabled wristbands that work like a digital wallet. They also get assigned a fun animal character like a Fit Frog, Ready Rabbit, Business Bee, or Frugal Fox.
Across 13 action-packed zones, children learn how to earn, save, spend, and give away money to see how their choices matter. From stepping into the Heritage Quarter to exploring the Money Museum, trading at the Barter Market, and searching for treasure at the River of Gold…there’s many skill-based games to play. Additionally, they can print their own Money Town Dollars at the Money Lab.
Meanwhile, they can budget for healthy food at the supermarket, watch their savings grow at the bank, learn about investing, support causes at the Giving Booth, and practice spotting bad deals or scams in the Back Alley.
Family bonding activities
Delightfully, the Vault area offers families the chance to learn about precious things money can’t buy, such as health and time—and it even features a comforting chou-chou smell that kids can test.
Excitingly, kids get a printed badge and a receipt at the end of the visit to show the choices they made (to try doing things differently next time). Plus, caregivers can get special guides made by a child therapist to easily keep talking about money at home.
Overall, the Money Town exhibition is a great way for families to bond as parents get smart wristbands too, which can be linked to the child’s to earn bonus play money together.
Excellently, a travelling version of the exhibition will pop up in malls and public libraries from April 2027 to January 2029—if you can’t get down to the museum.
