Natural History Museum
Exhibitions //
Take a trip back in time as we transport you to the beginning of life on earth and watch as this slowly transforms into the diversity that we see today. Come and be enthralled by the myriad of colours and forms of natural history specimens in 15 thematic zones from plants and amphibians to mammals and dinosaurs.
The Museum houses three diplodocid sauropod fossils, which were among the largest and heaviest land animals to walk on this earth. Over 80% complete, two of these skeletons come with skulls—a rarity for sauropod fossils. Discovered between 2007 and 2010 in a small town of Ten Sleep, United States, they are believed to be part of a herd or even a family.
In July 2015, a 10.6-metre long female sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) was discovered dead off Jurong Island, marking the first record of a sperm whale in Singapore. The Museum team swiftly salvaged and studied the specimen, which is now exhibited in the Mammal Zone of the Museum.
‘Chengal pasir’ or Hopea sangal is a rare dipterocarp tree believed to be the origin of Changi’s name. Thought to be locally extinct, the lone specimen was discovered in 2002, but illegally felled the same year.
