Red Dot Design Museum Singapore
Red Dot Design Museum Singapore is the only museum dedicated to contemporary design in Singapore, and one of just three Red Dot Design Museums in the world.
The museum presents two exhibitions. A Preview of the Future showcases the latest winners of the Red Dot Award: Design Concept, featuring forward-thinking ideas and prototypes from designers around the globe. The Permanent Collection presents a selection of Red Dot winning products recognised for exceptional timeless design, displayed throughout the space.
Each year, the museum presents some of the world’s most progressive design ideas, making them accessible to anyone curious enough to step inside. Together, the exhibitions explore a question worth asking: what does good design look like, and where is it going next?
One of the World's Most Prestigious Design Awards
The Red Dot Design Award has been recognising exceptional design since 1955, with thousands of entries from designers and companies across more than 60 countries every year.
Within the Red Dot Design Award family, the Red Dot Award: Design Concept is dedicated to ideas at their earliest stage, celebrating concepts and prototypes that push the boundaries of what design can do. These are not finished products. They are the thinking that comes before.
Singapore is the exclusive global home of this award. Each year, the latest winners are presented here, positioning the city as a meeting point for emerging ideas and the future direction of global design.
Red Dot Design Museum Singapore was founded in 2005 at 28 Maxwell Road, the former Traffic Police Headquarters transformed overnight into a bright red creative landmark. The building became a symbol of Singapore’s commitment to design and creativity, and a gathering point for the local creative community for more than a decade. A new era had begun. Not just for Red Dot, but for design in Asia.
In 2017, the museum moved to its current home at Marina Bay, a full-glass building set among some of Singapore’s most iconic landmarks. For over 20 years, the independently run museum has helped establish Singapore as a destination for design and creative thinking in Asia. Throughout, it has remained committed to one thing: making good design accessible to anyone curious enough to look.
Museum Architecture
The museum occupies a building formerly known as the Marina Bay City Gallery, which once showcased city planners’ blueprints for the Marina Bay district. Designed by Cox Architects, the full-glass building takes on a strong geometrical form and comprises a playful composition of structural steel elements and large overhanging roofs that reflect the dynamism of Marina Bay.
When Red Dot Design Museum took over the building in 2017, MAKK Architects refurbished the interior, adding a mezzanine to create two levels of exhibition and retail spaces. The result is an open, light-filled interior where the city remains visible through the glass walls, a space that feels made for ideas.
“The most stunning of the three Red Dot Design Museums worldwide… wait until you step inside.”
—Elle Decor, The 10 Most Striking Design Museums Around the World
Twenty years on, the museum remains what it set out to be, a place where good design is taken seriously, and made accessible to everyone.