ArtScience Museum

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Singapore ArtScience Museum
新加坡艺术科学博物馆
Muzium Seni Sains Singapura
சிங்கப்பூர் கலை, அறிவியல் அருங்காட்சியகம்
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Established17 February 2011; 15 years ago (2011-02-17)
Location6 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018974
DirectorTemplate:Pluralize from textHonor Harger
Public transit access
 CE1   DT16  Bayfront
Websitewww.marinabaysands.com/ArtScienceMuseum

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Museum director Honor Harger

The ArtScience Museum is a museum within the integrated resort of Marina Bay Sands in the Downtown Core of the Central Area in Singapore. Opened on 17 February 2011 by Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, it features exhibitions that blend art, science, culture and technology.[1] It is the largest private museum in Singapore.[2]

The museum mainly hosts touring exhibitions curated by other museums, in addition to a permanent exhibition created in conjunction with art collective teamLab.[3]

History

On 12 November 2025, its partnership with PGLang's creative agency Project 3 was officially announced, intended for the museum's rebrand and current-to-upcoming shows.[4]

Architecture

The architecture is said to be a form reminiscent of a lotus flower.[5] It was designed by Moshe Safdie and features an exterior made of fibre-reinforced plastic supported internally by a steel lattice.[6]

Referred to as "The Welcoming Hand of Singapore" by Las Vegas Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson,[citation needed] the ArtScience Museum is anchored by a round base in the middle, with ten extensions referred to as "fingers" in the shape of a flower.[7] The design concept for each finger denotes various gallery spaces sporting skylights at the "fingertips", which are included as sustainable illumination for the curved interior walls.

The ArtScience Museum has 21 gallery spaces with a total area of 64,583 square feet (6,000 square meters).[citation needed]

Sustainability features

Rainwater is harvested and channelled down the centre of the building, flowing through its bowl-shaped roof into a reflecting pond at the lowest level of the building. The rainwater is then recycled for use in the building's restrooms.[citation needed]

Exhibitions

Information of past and current exhibitions can be found on the museum's website. A typical configuration of two to three exhibitions, including the permanent exhibition, is held concurrently.[8]

Permanent exhibition

The only permanent exhibition in the museum is Future World, which was created in collaboration with art collective teamLab.[3] It occupies the majority of the Basement 2 galleries.

Touring exhibitions

Non-exhaustive list of touring exhibitions at the ArtScience Museum
Exhibition Period Presenter
Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World[9] 19 Feb – 27 March 2011 American Museum of Natural History
Genghis Khan: The Exhibition[9] 19 Feb – 10 April 2011 Rex Exhibitions
Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds[10] 19 Feb – 2 October 2011 Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Asian Civilisations Museum, National Heritage Board, Singapore Tourism Board
Van Gogh Alive - the Exhibition[11] 16 Apr – 9 October 2011 Grande Exhibitions, VisionsCom
Dalí: Mind of a Genius – The Exhibition[12] 14 May – 13 November 2011 Stratton Foundation
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition[13][14] 29 October 2011 – 29 April 2012 Premier Exhibitions, RMS Titanic, Inc.
Cartier Time Art[15] 14 December 2011 – 12 February 2012 Cartier S.A.
Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal[16] 17 Mar – 21 October 2012 The Andy Warhol Museum
Harry Potter: The Exhibition[17] 2 Jun – 30 September 2012 Global Experience Specialists, Inc., Warner Bros. Consumer Products
Outside In: A Magnum Photos Showcase[18] 10 October 2012 – 17 March 2013 Magnum Photos
The Art of the Brick[19] 17 November 2012 – 14 April 2013 Nathan Sawaya
Fujians: The Blue Ocean Legacy[20] 24 November 2012 – 28 February 2013 Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan
Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb[21] 27 Apr – 4 November 2013 British Museum
Essential Eames: A Herman Miller Exhibition[22] 29 June 2013 – 16 February 2014 Eames Office, Herman Miller
50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic[23] 17 Aug – 27 October 2013 National Geographic Society
Dinosaurs: Dawn to Extinction[24] 25 Jan – 27 July 2014 American Museum of Natural History, PrimeSCI!, San Juan National Science Museum
Annie Leibovitz A Photographer's Life 1990 - 2005 18 Apr – 19 October 2014 -
An Ocean of Possibilities 31 Oct – 28 December 2014 Singapore International Photography Festival 2014, Noor Der Licht
Da Vinci: Shaping the Future 2015 -
Prudential Singapore Eye 2015 -
Future Masters 24 Jan – 1 February 2015 Samsung Masterpieces
Attack on Titan: The Exhibition 19 Feb – 9 August 2022 -
Human+: The Future of Our Species[25] 20 May – 15 October 2017 Science Gallery, Dublin.
Iris Van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses 15 Mar – 10 August 2025 -
The World of Studio Ghibli 4 October 2024 – 2 February 2025 -

Feature exhibitions

The ArtScience Museum features gallery spaces totalling 50,000 square feet (6,000 square meters) for exhibits from combined art/science, media/technology, as well as design/architecture motifs.

Permanent exhibits include objects indicative of the accomplishments of both the arts and the sciences through the ages, along the lines of Leonardo da Vinci's Flying Machine, a Kongming Lantern, and a high-tech robotic fish. The museum opened with an exhibition of a collection of the Belitung shipwreck cargo, and Tang dynasty treasures that were discovered and preserved by Tilman Walterfang of Seabed Explorations NZ Ltd.

Belitung shipwreck treasure

Tilman Walterfang and his team found the Tang dynasty artifacts in the Gaspar Strait in 1998 among the Belitung shipwreck, a large 9th-century Arabian dhow that sunk around 830 AD. For the next six years, they were desalinated, conserved and researched by his company Seabed Explorations Ltd in New Zealand. They were eventually purchased for around US$32 million.[26][27]

An accurate reproduction of the Arab dhow ship, named The Jewel of Muscat, was presented by the Sultanate of Oman to the government and people of Singapore.[28]

The items in the collection on tour accurately reflects the assortment and magnitude of the find and its global inter-cultural significance; this is the single largest consignment of Tang dynasty export goods ever discovered. The find includes some of the oldest cobalt-blue-and-white ceramics made in China, several gold items made with Arabic designs and swastikas, jars filled with spices and incense resins, bronze mirrors, thousands of glazed bowls, ewers and other fine ceramics, as well as lead ingots. The pièce de résistance of the exhibition is a small cache of magnificent, intricately tooled vessels of silver and gold, which remain unparalleled in quality and design from the period.

World tour of Tang dynasty shipwreck treasure

With support from the estate of Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat, the cargo of the Arab dhow, which was used as the true and original model, is now generally referred to among academic circles as the "Tang Shipwreck Treasure: Singapore's Maritime Collection".[29]

Programmes and experiences

In addition to exhibitions, the museum also hosts progammes, including screenings at its Cinema and VR Gallery. Experiences, such as activities held in the ArtScience Laboratory, are also available.

See also

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