LKCNHM museum officer, Hwang Wei Song, gave a talk at the Biodiversity Research Symposium 2014 organised by NParks at the Singapore Botanic Gardens’ Botany Centre. Wei Song spoke about the assassin bug (Reduviidae) research conducted by his students and himself on the diversity of this insect family in Singapore, as well as their natural history. Preliminary assessment shows a wide...Read More
Professor Peter Ng named head of LKCNHM
Text to ST article Crab expert named chief of new natural history museum Tan Dawn Wei Peter Ng to head Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum for 2 years SINGAPORE’S first standalone natural history museum now officially has a chief, who will lead the museum under a new academic unit of the National University of...Read More
We are on RazorTV
RazorTV paid us a visit last month to document our preparations for the Big Move. Here are the videos giving you a sneak peak of how we are dealing with the gargantuan task of preparing to move more than half a million specimens of all sizes and conditions to our new home. It certainly is...Read More
LKCNHM Specimens at the Singapore Art Museum
Our conservator, Kate Pocklington, recently collaborated with artist, Lucy Davis, on two exhibits at the Singapore Art Museum as part of an exhibition—Unearthed. Unearthed contains exhibits by artists in Singapore that offer a look into how they as city dwellers view and respond to the natural world. The two exhibits that Kate was involved with are All...Read More