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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
Established	17 February 2011; 13 years ago
Location	6 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018974
Director	Honor Harger
Public transit access	CE1 DT16 Bayfront
Website	www.marinabaysands.com/ArtScienceMuseum

1°17′10″N 103°51′33″E / 1.28611°N 103.85917°E / 1.28611; 103.85917

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 major exhibitions that blend art, science, culture and technology.^[1]

Although a permanent exhibition at the ArtScience Gallery has been planned, the museum mainly hosts touring exhibitions curated by other museums.

Architecture

The architecture is said to be a form reminiscent of a lotus flower.^[2] It is designed by Moshe Safdie.

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". 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.

Aerial view of ArtScience Museum
Night view of Singapore Art Science Museum, February 2019
ArtScience Museum at twilight
A night view of the museum photographed in February 2011
View from below

Gallery spaces

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.

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibition

Since Future World there is no permanent exhibition.

Touring exhibitions

Some of the touring exhibitions at the ArtScience Museum include:

Exhibition	Period	Presenter
Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World^[3]	19 Feb – 27 Mar 2011	American Museum of Natural History
Genghis Khan: The Exhibition^[3]	19 Feb – 10 Apr 2011	Rex Exhibitions
Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds^[4]	19 Feb – 2 Oct 2011	Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Asian Civilisations Museum, National Heritage Board, Singapore Tourism Board
Van Gogh Alive - the Exhibition^[5]	16 Apr – 9 Oct 2011	Grande Exhibitions, VisionsCom
Dalí: Mind of a Genius – The Exhibition^[6]	14 May – 13 Nov 2011	Stratton Foundation
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition^[7]^[8]	29 Oct 2011 – 29 Apr 2012	Premier Exhibitions, RMS Titanic, Inc.
Cartier Time Art^[9]	14 Dec 2011 – 12 Feb 2012	Cartier S.A.
Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal^[10]	17 Mar – 21 Oct 2012	The Andy Warhol Museum
Harry Potter: The Exhibition^[11]	2 Jun – 30 Sep 2012	Global Experience Specialists, Inc., Warner Bros. Consumer Products
Outside In: A Magnum Photos Showcase^[12]	10 Oct 2012 – 17 Mar 2013	Magnum Photos
The Art of the Brick^[13]	17 Nov 2012 – 14 Apr 2013	Nathan Sawaya
Fujians: The Blue Ocean Legacy^[14]	24 Nov 2012 – 28 Feb 2013	Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan
Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb^[15]	27 Apr – 4 Nov 2013	British Museum
Essential Eames: A Herman Miller Exhibition^[16]	29 Jun 2013 – 16 Feb 2014	Eames Office, Herman Miller
50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic^[17]	17 Aug – 27 Oct 2013	National Geographic Society
Dinosaurs: Dawn to Extinction^[18]	25 Jan – 27 Jul 2014	American Museum of Natural History, PrimeSCI!, San Juan National Science Museum
Annie Leibovitz A Photographer's Life 1990 - 2005	18 Apr – 19 Oct 2014	-
Human+: The Future of Our Species^[19]	May 20 – Oct 15 2017	Science Gallery, Dublin.

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 32 million USD.^[20]^[21]

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.^[22]

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".^[23]