Singapore Tourism celebrates bicentennial with a year of events

The Singapore Tourism Board is commemorating the city state?s bicentennial year with a series of events running throughout 2019.

The main events coincide with Chinese New Year celebrations, including iLight Singapore, a city-wide light show which runs until February 24; Light to Night Festival, an urban art festival which transforms landmark sites across Singapore, also running until February 24; and the Chingay Parade which celebrates multiculturalism, running from February 15-16.

From March 15 to April 7, the Singapore Heritage Festival will run community outreach events, and the Bicentennial Experience at Fort Canning runs from June 1 until September 15, taking visitors on a journey through 700 years of history. 

Museums will be holding exhibitions, including ?Raffles in Southeast Asia: Revisiting the Scholar and Statesman?, which runs until the end of April at the Asian Civilisations Museum; and Early Singapore, which runs from August 2019 until January 2020 at the National Library.

For more information about the events running throughout 2019, go to www.visitsingapore.com