A Little Known 'Museum /Attraction' in Singapore's Wallace Trail and Wildlife

Problem
What to do which is different, without the huge queues and crowded and high prices and time needed for major attractions?

Old Ford Factory
In the north west outskirts of Singapore I have enjoyed visiting the Old Ford Factory Museum with its exhibits on WWII when Singapore was under Japanese occupation. (Small fee, reduced for schoolchildren and Singapore Residents.) See my previous post.

You might be able to combine a trip to the Old Ford Factory with the Wallace Trail at Dairy Farm Nature Park and exhibition.

The Wallace Trail At Dairy Farm Nature Park
The website tells you lots of useful information about fruit trees such as identifying a durian tree.

The under cover exhibition is in a converted cowshed - from the Dairy Farm. If you've driven along Diary Farm Road and wondered what happened to the dairy and thought it was vanished without trace, like the Orchard on Orchard Road, and the beach on beach road, it's good to be able to learn about the old Dairy Farm.

I like the pithily expressed admonition on the Wallace website:

Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.

Wallace was an English naturalist.

Driving through the area, my friends told me about their visit to the Wallace exhibition, about Wallace and wildlife. London, England has a Wallace Collection, a lesser known art gallery. So make sure you specify the country when searching the internet for information on either of these two places.

Your internet search might also turn up the National Wallace Monument in Stirling, Scotland.

You could also combine a visit to the The Wallace Trail with a climb up Bukit Timah. (Bukit is Malay for Hill.)

Here are the links to these attractions:
Singapore
https://www.nparks.gov.sg/~/media/nparks-real-content/gardens-parks-and-nature/diy-walk/diy-walk-pdf-files/wallace-trail-at-dairy-farm-nature-park.pdf?la=en (Singapore)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Ford_Motor_Factory
https://www.nparks.gov.sg/gardens-parks-and-nature/parks-and-nature-reserves/bukit-timah-nature-reserve

It's worthwhile reading abound the internet. Although the official website reminds you to spray yourself with insect cream on the trail, a local blogger gives close up (copyright so I cant reproduce them) pictures, and the warming that mosses are out 'in droves'.
http://thesmartlocal.com/read/wallace-trail-at-dairy-farm-nature-reserve

England
http://www.wallacecollection.org (Art in London)
https://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/Attraction_Review-g186338-d187558-Reviews-Wallace_Collection-London_England.html

Scotland
https://www.tripadvisor.co.za/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g191266-d190216-i233555535-National_Wallace_Monument-Stirling_Scotland.html

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.