POV: Snow City With Your Family in 2011
You are at Snow City in 2011 with your family. You are handed a black puffer jacket and boots that are too big, you walk through the door into minus five degrees, you last about forty minutes on the snow slope, and you leave through a gift shop called The Igloo with a polar bear keychain. Then you go home to Jurong and it is 32 degrees. That is the whole memory and 800 people liked it, because Snow City closes on 30 September 2026 and everyone is suddenly remembering it at once.
What the 2011 visit was
The photos in our post are from family bloggers of that era: the jacket rack, the slope with a dozen kids sliding down on tubes, a snowman with a scarf, a Christmas tree in July, a lollipop-themed corner, and a polar bear mascot suit that has haunted at least one commenter since. Snow City is a single indoor snow chamber at the Science Centre in Jurong East, and it has looked basically the same since it opened in 2000. That is the point. Nobody went for the facilities. You went because it was the coldest place in Singapore and your parents were paying.
The Jurong kids in our other post called it "a childhood fever dream", which is the correct term for a place you remember as much bigger than it is.
It closes on 30 September 2026
Snow City closes for good on 30 September 2026, per the Science Centre Board, with farewell pricing until then. If you want to take your own kids for the exact 2011 experience before it goes, the full details, prices and hours are in our Snow City closing guide. Go on a weekday. The last weekends will be every family in Jurong having the same idea.
The last slide promised VivoCity's rooftop next, which is the other place an entire generation played and then forgot about.
Good to know
· Snow City closes 30 September 2026. Weekday sessions are the sane ones before then.
· Wear long pants and socks. The jacket and boots are provided, the rest is on you.
· The gift shop is the last thing you walk through. Decide the keychain budget before you go in.
· It is at the Science Centre, Jurong East MRT then a walk or a short bus.
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