The imperial court is setting up shop on Scotts Road. The Apothecary Diaries Exhibition Singapore opens at Fever Exhibition Hall on 30 September 2026 and runs through 1 November — a five-week stint that lands the touring anime exhibition in Singapore for the first time, after stops in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Seoul.

The announcement came via Sliding Doors Entertainment Asia and TOHO animation’s Asia account, with the key visual putting Maomao, Jinshi and the rest of the palace cast against a wall of flowers. Worth flagging: that post said “ticket information available soon” — but tickets are already live on Fever, and there’s an early-bird deadline coming up fast.

What the Apothecary Diaries Exhibition Singapore actually is

This is the travelling exhibition produced by Hong Kong-based INCUBASE Studio, which began its Asia tour in Hong Kong in November 2025 and has since run in Kuala Lumpur (23 May to 12 July), Taipei and Seoul. Singapore is the next stop, with Fever as both venue and ticketing partner and Trip.com Group also handling ticketing.

The format is a walk-through rather than a gallery you drift around in. Fever lists the run time at roughly 55 minutes at your own pace, and re-entry is not permitted — so this isn’t a “pop out for bubble tea and come back” kind of visit. Plan the timing.

Inside, the draw is a mix of recreated sets and production material. Fever’s listing for the Singapore run points to Maomao’s medicine cabinet, the Inner Palace corridors, life-size character standees, original artwork and photo spots with props from the show. INCUBASE says the tour carries over 250 pieces of reproduced original artwork, storyboards and production materials — including sketches walking through Maomao’s pharmacological reasoning — much of which had not been shown outside Japan before the tour started.

Sets, standees and 250-plus artworks

From the Hong Kong and KL legs, the shape of it is clear enough. Zones recreate palace and pleasure district scenes at full scale with video content layered in, character costumes go on display, and there’s a behind-the-scenes area on how the anime was made. Autographed memorabilia from original novel author Natsu Hyuuga and members of the voice cast has featured on previous stops.

Interactive bits have travelled with it too — a “find the hidden Maomao” hunt for eight mini figures scattered through the exhibition, a photo sticker booth, and location-exclusive photo zones. The KL run added a poison-tasting scene at the Garden Party and a Go challenge. Which of these make the Singapore cut hasn’t been confirmed, so treat the specifics as likely rather than guaranteed.

There’s a merchandise shop at the end, which on previous legs carried acrylic stands, keychains, metal bookmarks, clear files and character goods. If you’ve done a licensed anime exhibition in Singapore before, you know the shop is where the damage happens.

Tickets and prices in SGD

Tickets are on sale now through Fever at early-bird rates. Prices at the time of writing:

• Adult (13+): S$28
• Child (3–12): S$25
• VIP (adult or child): S$63 — includes two metal bookmarks and a S$10 merchandise voucher
• Bundle of 3: S$73 — up to two adults and one child, or one adult and two children
• Bundle of 4: S$96 — various adult/child splits

The catch: Fever adds a booking surcharge of around S$2.10 per ticket at checkout, so the S$28 adult ticket lands closer to S$30. Every ticket tier includes a complimentary clear character card.

Mark your calendar: book before 30 August and you get a free random clear character card on top. That’s a little over two weeks from now, so if you were going anyway, going early costs you nothing.

Children under 2 enter free, and anyone 12 and under needs an adult with them. The venue is accessible. Group bookings of 30 or more go through Sliding Doors Entertainment at enquiry@slidingdoorsentertainment.com.

Getting to Fever Exhibition Hall

Fever Exhibition Hall sits at 25 Scotts Road, Singapore 228220 — the old T Galleria by DFS space, about a five-minute walk from Orchard MRT up Scotts Road. It’s the same 1,300 sqm venue that has hosted The Art of Banksy and the Portals sci-fi experience since opening in 2025.

Exhibition hours are 10am to 8pm daily, with last entry at 7pm. Given the 55-minute run time and the no-re-entry rule, a 7pm slot is cutting it fine if you want time in the merch shop.

Season 3 lands right in the middle of the run

The timing here is not an accident. Season 3 premieres in October 2026 for its first cour, with the second cour following in April 2027, and an original anime film written by Natsu Hyuuga opens in Japanese cinemas in December. The exhibition opens on 30 September — days before the new season starts.

If you’re coming in cold, both existing seasons stream on Netflix Singapore with English subtitles — the series is one of the titles Netflix licensed for select Asian territories, Singapore included, rather than the Crunchyroll-everywhere-else arrangement. One thing for parents to note: Netflix Singapore rates the series NC16, even though the exhibition sells child tickets from age 3. The show deals in poisonings and court politics; the exhibition is a set-and-artwork walkthrough. Judge the two separately.

Should you book?

At S$28 for roughly an hour, this is priced in line with the other licensed anime exhibitions that have passed through Singapore, and cheaper than most Fever Exhibition Hall headliners. The five-week window is short, it closes before the November school holidays start, and the early-bird card disappears on 30 August.

If you’ve watched Maomao poison-test her way through two seasons, the medicine cabinet alone is probably worth the ticket. We’ll update this post when the Singapore-specific zone list and merch lineup are confirmed — until then, keep an eye on our event coverage and anime and manga sections.