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The Land Transport Gallery is the visitor centre of the Land Transport Authority (LTA), a statutory board under the Ministry of Transport of Government of Singapore. The gallery is located at the main LTA Hampshire Office and showcases the evolution of the land transport system in Singapore.
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Aim
The Land Transport Authority (LTA), established on 1 September 1995, is responsible for planning, operating and maintaining Singapore's land transport infrastructure and systems. The gallery brings visitors through the history of LTA from the past to present and how the transport system in the country has evolved over the years.
Singapore - An Urban Laboratory
The city of Singapore is at the forefront of finding innovative solutions of modern-day urbanisation. Urban Designer for the Department of City Planning in New York, Alexandros Washburn, said Singapore's urban design scale experiments are made possible within a measurable timeframe with "great combination of creativity, resources and unified action". Galleries like HDB Gallery aim to show visitors how a city with little land "experiments but makes no mistakes". Other galleries include the Singapore City Gallery, Land Transport Gallery and Sustainable Singapore Gallery.aspx Marina Barrage's Sustainable Singapore Gallery.
Gallery
The gallery is made up of 6 different zones namely:
- Journeys
- Memories
- Formative years
- Land Transport Today
- Challenge Theatre
- Vision & Aspirations
The gallery showcases Singapore's modes of transportation in comparison with the world's major cities land transport systems. The challenges and key milestones of Singapore's land transport development during the formative years are also featured in the gallery. Visitors can also have a go at being a transport planner through an interactive multi-player game and take a peek at the future transportation landscape.
The gallery is free for visitors from Mondays to Saturdays from 9.30am to 5pm (closed on Sundays and public holidays) with guided tours available for booking.