ArtScience Museum

On 12 November 2025, its partnership with PGLang's creative agency Project 3 was officially announced, intended for the museum's rebrand and current-to-upcoming shows.^[4]

The architecture is said to be a form reminiscent of a lotus flower.^[5] It was designed by Moshe Safdie and features an exterior made of fibre-reinforced plastic supported internally by a steel lattice.^[6]

Referred to as "The Welcoming Hand of Singapore" by Las Vegas Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson,^{[citation needed]} the ArtScience Museum is anchored by a round base in the middle, with ten extensions referred to as "fingers" in the shape of a flower.^[7] The design concept for each finger denotes various gallery spaces sporting skylights at the "fingertips", which are included as sustainable illumination for the curved interior walls.

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  Aerial view of the ArtScience Museum
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  Night view of Singapore Art Science Museum, February 2019
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  The ArtScience Museum at twilight
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  A night view of the museum photographed in February 2011
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  View from below

The ArtScience Museum has 21 gallery spaces with a total area of 64,583 square feet (6,000 square meters).^{[citation needed]}

Rainwater is harvested and channelled down the centre of the building, flowing through its bowl-shaped roof into a reflecting pond at the lowest level of the building. The rainwater is then recycled for use in the building's restrooms.^{[citation needed]}

Information of past and current exhibitions can be found on the museum's website. A typical configuration of two to three exhibitions, including the permanent exhibition, is held concurrently.^[8]

The only permanent exhibition in the museum is Future World, which was created in collaboration with art collective teamLab.^[3] It occupies the majority of the Basement 2 galleries.

The ArtScience Museum features gallery spaces totalling 50,000 square feet (6,000 square meters) for exhibits from combined art/science, media/technology, as well as design/architecture motifs.

Permanent exhibits include objects indicative of the accomplishments of both the arts and the sciences through the ages, along the lines of Leonardo da Vinci's Flying Machine, a Kongming Lantern, and a high-tech robotic fish. The museum opened with an exhibition of a collection of the Belitung shipwreck cargo, and Tang dynasty treasures that were discovered and preserved by Tilman Walterfang of Seabed Explorations NZ Ltd.

Tilman Walterfang and his team found the Tang dynasty artifacts in the Gaspar Strait in 1998 among the Belitung shipwreck, a large 9th-century Arabian dhow that sunk around 830 AD. For the next six years, they were desalinated, conserved and researched by his company Seabed Explorations Ltd in New Zealand. They were eventually purchased for around US$32 million.^[26][27]

An accurate reproduction of the Arab dhow ship, named The Jewel of Muscat, was presented by the Sultanate of Oman to the government and people of Singapore.^[28]

The items in the collection on tour accurately reflects the assortment and magnitude of the find and its global inter-cultural significance; this is the single largest consignment of Tang dynasty export goods ever discovered. The find includes some of the oldest cobalt-blue-and-white ceramics made in China, several gold items made with Arabic designs and swastikas, jars filled with spices and incense resins, bronze mirrors, thousands of glazed bowls, ewers and other fine ceramics, as well as lead ingots. The pièce de résistance of the exhibition is a small cache of magnificent, intricately tooled vessels of silver and gold, which remain unparalleled in quality and design from the period.

With support from the estate of Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat, the cargo of the Arab dhow, which was used as the true and original model, is now generally referred to among academic circles as the "Tang Shipwreck Treasure: Singapore's Maritime Collection".^[29]

In addition to exhibitions, the museum also hosts progammes, including screenings at its Cinema and VR Gallery. Experiences, such as activities held in the ArtScience Laboratory, are also available.