Celebrating the book launch of ‘8½ Hours in Singapore’!
On 27 March 2024, Wednesday, the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) and the National University of Singapore Libraries (NUS Libraries) had the pleasure of hosting an exciting event—the […]
READ MORETwo Wallace Lines
A few days ago, we celebrated our 8th Anniversary on 18 April 2023. Coincidentally, this momentous date happens to share the same date British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace arrived on […]
READ MOREForgotten Tales of Ornithology Behind Bars: ‘The Role of Birds in WWII’
In the Museum’s Heritage Gallery, a showcase features an extraordinary story of a bird book that was conceived under remarkable circumstances. This is the story of Guy Charles […]
READ MORELaunch of ‘Diard & Duvaucel: A Collection of French Natural History Drawings of Singapore and Southeast Asia, 1818–1820’
In 1818, two young intrepid French naturalists, Pierre-Médard Diard and Alfred Duvaucel, left Paris to study the fauna and flora of Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Diard and […]
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