The Live Turtle & Tortoise Museum

Despite living in Singapore for more than 20 years, I did not know there is a turtle and tortoise museum until last week. Since there was nothing much to do, I decided to head down to the museum for a look. You can find out more information here.

The museum is located inside Singapore Chinese Garden. The entrance fee for adult is SGD5.00 and SGD3.00 for kids and senior citizens. If you are keen to feed the tortoise and turtles, you can purchase the leafy vegetables at SGD2.00. 

There are some tortoises wandering around freely. Having said that, you need to pay attention and avoid stepping on their faeces which look similar to that of ours.     

 

The alligator snapping turtles are more dangerous and thus weren't roaming freely like the others. It is intrigue to see that inside their mouth there is a worm-like tongue. For those fishes who may mistaken that of a worm might suffer some serious damage if they were to head straight to that 'worm'.

 

The museum wasn't very big. One would probably spend 30 minutes to an hour inside and you will be done. It was quite an eye opening sight to see so many tortoises and turtles up close and some of them are endangered species.