As Singapore embarks on the school term, get ready for our new ‘Edutainment Zoom’ programme! Every Saturday, from 13 June to 1 August, our staff and Museum Partners will be hosting a series of eight educational and entertaining sessions for children and young families. With story-telling sessions, drawing, live demonstrations and more, these activities will...Read More
E-Book Launch: 200 Points in Singapore’s Natural History
Exactly one year ago, LKCNHM launched the exhibition ‘200: a natural history’ to commemorate Singapore’s Bicentennial. The exhibition chronicles 200 natural history events from the last two centuries of modern Singapore, filling the walls of the temporary gallery with specimens, images and anecdotes of animals, plants, events, places and people that have played important roles...Read More
May School Holidays Special!
The May school holidays have begun! Our Outreach and Education Unit are eager to share with you their new web-talk series, ‘Thursday Talk Shop’. Our Education officers will be inviting special guest speakers with expertise in natural or environmental sciences, and chat with them about their work experiences. In our first session, we were...Read More
The Anthony J. Whitten (1953–2017) Memorial Issue
“In the last 10 days I’ve been told that two beetles have been named after me, something I find very flattering. … One is a blind, long-legged cave-restricted beetle, and the other is a dung beetle. But before you scoff too loudly, remember that in Ancient Egypt the dung beetles or scarabs were objects of...Read More
From Dungun to Leiden: For the love of fireflies
This post is written by Dr. Wan Faridah Akmal Jusoh, Research Fellow at LKCNHM, for the Vereniging Nederland-Maleisie Newsletter (article republished with permission). I was born and raised in Dungun, a beautiful coastal district of the north-eastern peninsular Malaysian state of Terengganu. Unlike what you are probably imagining, I did not grow up by...Read More
Temporary Closure of the Gallery
The LKCNHM Gallery will be temporarily closed with effect from 26 March 2020 until further notice. The re-opening date will be announced on our website and social media channels once it is confirmed. Our decision follows the advice of the Ministry of Health and the measures set by the Multi-Ministry Taskforce to limit the spread...Read More
Changes to Opening Hours
Singapore is now going through a COVID-19 outbreak. As a result, traffic in most museums and public areas have decreased as people take the necessary precautions. With the decrease in visitor numbers, with effect from Tuesday, 24 March 2020, the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum will shorten its gallery operating hours and close at...Read More
Visit by Our Prime Minister
We are delighted that PM Lee and his wife took time out to visit our museum over the weekend. During his visit, PM Lee took an awesome photograph of the Wallace & Ali statue, sculpted by students from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. The statue features renowned British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who spent...Read More
Notice to visitors
We are confronting an extraordinary public health challenge. To succeed in stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus in our community, each of us must play our part. We seek your thoughtful cooperation for the following measures. Visitors are advised to: Practise frequent hand washing with soap; Use our hand sanitizers located at the...Read More