natural history museum Archives - Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

POSTED ON October 30, 2019 BY Clarisse Tan

Year-end School Holiday Activities!

Come join us for some fun activities during the upcoming school holidays! Check out the details in the posters below. Year-end School Holiday Crafts Make Animals Great Again Book Launch (16 Nov) Ex-Code-Vate (30 Nov) Paper Weaving Craft (15 Dec)

POSTED ON September 3, 2019 BY Clarisse Tan

Wallace & Ali Statue Launch

After months of hard work and preparation, last Friday we officially unveiled the latest addition to our museum! A statue of British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and Ali, his trusted assistant, now stands in front of our museum. Crafted by students from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, the statue celebrates Wallace and Ali’s explorations

POSTED ON July 25, 2019 BY Clarisse Tan

Untangling the Knotted Identities of Commercially Important Swimming Crabs

Are you sure the seafood you are consuming is what it says on the label or the menu? In 2015, a survey of Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) meat sold in supermarkets and restaurants in Maryland, USA, revealed that nearly 50% of the products tested were from totally different, non-Atlantic species. DNA barcoding matched a

POSTED ON June 20, 2019 BY Clarisse Tan

Visit by Professor Tommy Koh and Diplomats from 22 Countries

We are honoured to have hosted Prof. Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, H.E. James Sinclair Manley, Ambassador from Chile; and diplomats from 21 other countries all over the world during their visit here recently. They enjoyed a tour of our gallery and new bicentennial exhibition,

POSTED ON June 7, 2019 BY Clarisse Tan

‘200: a natural history’ Exhibition Launch

We held the official launch of our new exhibition, ‘200: a natural history’, on 3 June. Held in conjunction with Singapore’s Bicentennial activities, the exhibition highlights significant events and stories in the past 200 years of Singapore’s natural history. Our Guest of Honour for the exhibition launch was Ms. Grace Fu, the Minister for Culture,

POSTED ON June 3, 2019 BY Clarisse Tan

Museum Tour for Symposium Participants

Last Friday, a group of academic staff from institutes of higher education in ASEAN had a tour of our museum gallery, courtesy of our Deputy Head, Prof. Darren Yeo. They were here as participants of a 2-day symposium hosted by the Faculty of Science of NUS, titled: Higher Education in a Disruptive Landscape: The State

POSTED ON May 8, 2019 BY Maosheng Foo

June School Holiday Activities!

Come join us for some fun storytelling sessions and craft workshops during the June school holidays! Details are as follows in the posters below. June School Holiday Colour-Make-Play Crafts Armour Publishing Presents Storytelling – 7 June C.S.I. Singapore: A Murder at the LKCNHM (click here for more info)

POSTED ON April 18, 2019 BY Clarisse Tan

International Museum Day Activities!

Come join us for some fun coding sessions and craft workshops, in conjunction with our celebration of International Museum Day 2019 (18 May). Activities are free for ticket holders and LKCNHM members – check out the details in the posters below! EX-CODE-VATE (18 May) Pasta Shells Art & Craft (19 May)

POSTED ON April 9, 2019 BY Clarisse Tan

Reconstructing a Sperm Whale’s Tale

Four years after a female sperm whale was found dead in Singapore waters, scientists are starting to put the pieces together to reconstruct the story of how she got to be there. Discovered off Jurong Island in July 2015, she was the first (and only) sperm whale sighting that has been recorded here till date.

POSTED ON April 5, 2019 BY Clarisse Tan

Visiting Scientist Feature: Ms. Umilaela Arifin

We recently welcomed a new visitor to the museum! Ms. Umilaela Arifin, a PhD student at the University of Hamburg, Germany, has been studying the phylogenetic systematics (evolutionary relationships between organisms) and biogeography of adult and larval torrent frogs over the past few years. Torrent frogs (or cascade frogs)—as their name suggests—are often found in