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ArtScience Museum is one of the attractions at Marina Bay Sands, an integrated resort in Singapore owned by the US Las Vegas Sands company. Opened on 17 February 2011 by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, it is the world's first ArtScience museum.
Merlion, a marketing icon used as a mascot and national personification of Singapore
Standing at 8.6 metres high and weighing 70 tonnes, the Merlion statue has a lion's head and a fish's body
Although the ArtScience
Museum has a permanent exhibition, ArtScience Gallery, the ArtScience
Museum mainly hosts touring exhibitions
curated by other museums
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The architecture is said be a form reminiscent of a
lotus flower
It is designed by the architect
Moshe Safdie (born 1938, an
Israeli/Canadian/American architect)
The Marina Bay Sands hotel has three 55-story
towers with 2,561 luxury rooms and
suites, and is capped by the
Sands SkyPark, which offers 360-degree views of
Singapore's skyline
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Marina Bay Sands is an
integrated resort fronting Marina
Bay in Singapore. Developed by Las
Vegas Sands (LVS), it is the world's second most expensive building, at US$
5.5 billion, including the cost of the prime land
Marina Bay and a Singapore Flyer capsule
Gardens by the Bay
Singapore Flyer is the world’s
largest observation
wheel. Standing at a stunning
165m from the ground, the Flyer
offers you breathtaking,
panoramic views of the Marina
Bay, the island city and beyond
Referred to as "The Welcoming
Hand of Singapore" by
Las Vegas Sands chairman
Sheldon Adelson, the ArtScience
Museum is anchored by a
round base in the middle, with ten
extensions referred to as
"fingers”
Marina Bay and a Singapore Flyer
capsule
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 50,000 square feet (6,000 square meters).
Rainwater is harvested and channelled down the center 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.
View from ArtScience
Museum
The permanent exhibition,
the ArtScience
Gallery, consists of
three galleries - Curiosity,
Inspiration, Expression
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 carefully preserved by Tilman Walterfang of Seabed Explorations NZ Ltd.
Play with Mongolian Traditional
Toys
Bowls from kilns:hand-painted Changsha,
Hunan, China bowls found on the sunken ship
The Intricate Designs on a
Green-splashed ewer salvaged from a 9th century
Arab dhow that sailed the
maritime Silk Road over a
thousand years ago
Stem cup with a freely modeled animal and a
drinking tubeChina, probably Henan
province, Gongxian kilnsTang dynasty, ca. 825-50
Glazed stoneware with copper-green splashes
over white slip
Beautifully crafted gold works were among the artifacts salvaged from the sunken ninth century Arab dhow that sailed from East to West via Southeast Asia
Ewer with dragon-head spout and feline-shaped handle
An octagonal gold cup with a thumb plate at the top of its handle, from the Belitung shipwreck (ca. 825–850)
Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Gardens by the Bay
The Helix Bridge is a pedestrian bridge linking Marina Centre with Marina South in the Marina Bay area
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The Merlion (Malay: Singa-Laut) a traditional creature with a lion head and a body of a fish, national personification of Singapore.
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