Hi,
Today we bought tickets to visit Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.
Apparently the Lee Foundation, founded by Lee Kong Chian, a philanthropist and business man, made a huge donation to fund this museum and therefore it was named in honour of him. Well thanks to him I get to enjoy ogling at the some mysterious lifeforms from this world! Took lots of pics so I’ll swap my boring words with pics..
The facade looks like a slanted mess of planks stuck to the wall.
The lobby features a picture, a very nice spiral of dead animals, so ominous.
Because there are fixed timings for entry to the exhibits, we have to wait at the lobby, we were really hungry because we haven’t had our lunch yet. Sadly, there’s only this small little giftshop that has a very limited and overpriced selection of snacks and drinks.
Claire’s first encounter with Ah Meng is its preserved corpse.. Exhibited in a glass case for the education of the future generations.
This is… not real.. unfortunately.. I’ll love to catch a whiff of that rotting smell from the real thing. 🙂
Many specimens of shellfishes
Maybe she can use that big ear-like shell as a hat?
Heart shaped shells for proposing.. maybe not.
Tiny Shells! I forgot they’re snails or what..
That cliché reflection wefie..
Dinosaur skeleton.. must be a replica.
Series of Plant cells under microscope.
Some old specimens of plants found in Singapore.
That cross section of… shit I forgot which famous tree this is.. Changi Tree?
Suspended in time (or formalin preservation).
Spot that pin on the poor butterfly, hope death came swiftly for it.
Many more gruesome specimens (user’s discretion, skip them if you hate them!), cruel.. maybe, but its all done in the name of science.
Happy looking bug..
All these cockroaches.. I’m weak against them…
Alaskan King Crab! Seafood I can’t afford! But I can afford that curious looking human beside it.
Claire kept questioning me about this parent and child combo like how they died, why did they die, who killed them, why so cruel, did she die protecting her child, why must her child die too. All of those questions I have no answers for… Probably died in an accident or they’re just plastic figurines. I have no idea..
And the mandatory OOTD pic for Claire.
Plus the mandatory candid shot before she’s ready.
The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum is so interesting!! Its too bad we went in at 4pm and they close at 7pm… We haven’t even explore the 2nd floor. Its full of different specimens of plants and animals in the region. And of course we can’t hope to house every single species available in our region in such a small space. But knowing that, its amazing how many different lives are simultaneously living around us! Life is such a wonder. Oh well, our visit came to an end when we got ushered out of the museum. Feeling really really hungry at this point, we hop on a bus and make our way to town for dinner.
When I feel hungry, I think Ramen. So we went to Hakata Ikkousha at Chijmes, again. And this will be in the next post.
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum is located at the Kent Ridge Campus of the National University of Singapore.
2 Conservatory Dr, 117377
