Fort Canning Park

Fort Canning Park is a hilltop park of about 22 hectares in the Museum planning area of central Singapore, bounded by Hill Street, Canning Rise, Clemenceau Avenue and River Valley Road. Its Heritage Gallery traces more than 700 years of the hill's history, with archaeological finds from the 1300s dug up within the park. Sir Stamford Raffles had a bungalow built on the summit in late 1822, which later governors used as their residence until it was pulled down for a fort, completed in 1861 and named after Viscount Canning, Governor-General of India. The Fort Gate is the last surviving part of that fort.

Below ground, the Battle Box, a bunker built between 1936 and 1941, is where the British decided on 15 February 1942 to surrender Singapore. Above ground, NParks opened nine historical gardens on 27 May 2019, among them Pancur Larangan, Raffles Garden, the First Botanic Garden and Farquhar Garden. The Spice Garden, enlarged in 2022 to more than 180 plant varieties, partly sits on the site of Singapore's first botanical and experimental garden, founded in 1822. The Fort Canning Heritage Gallery, opened on 22 August 2022 in Fort Canning Centre, shows artefacts excavated in the park. The park is open 24 hours, with 15 heritage trees, and the nearest MRT stations are Fort Canning, Clarke Quay and Dhoby Ghaut.