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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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