ArtScience Museum
A lotus-shaped building where rainwater drains through the roof by design and teamLab dissolves the walls below ground.
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Singapore's largest private museum runs two to three overlapping exhibitions at once — rotating touring shows plus teamLab's permanent Future World filling most of Basement 2. Moshe Safdie's fibre-reinforced plastic exterior rises in ten "finger" extensions from a round base, each fingertip fitted with a skylight that provides sustainable natural illumination for the curved gallery walls beneath.
What to look for
- Ten "finger" extensions: the skylights at each fingertip provide sustainable natural illumination for the curved interior galleries below
- The bowl-shaped roof funnels rainwater down through the building's centre into a reflecting pond at the lowest level — that water is recycled for the restrooms
- Future World (Basement 2): teamLab's permanent installation occupying most of the lower-level galleries
Inside Marina Bay Sands, Downtown Core — check the museum website before visiting, as the two to three concurrent exhibitions rotate and the lineup changes.
ArtScience Museum is one of 30 sights worth the detour in Singapore, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Singapore pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Singapore
- Singapore Botanic GardensThe world's only tropical UNESCO garden — where 1920s rubber supplied half the planet's latex and orchids now carry diplomats' names.
- Marina Bay SandsA 150-metre infinity pool balanced on the world's largest public cantilevered platform, jutting 66.5 metres past the edge of its own tower.
- Marina Bay Street CircuitLewis Hamilton said this 4.927 km loop was twice as physically punishing as Monaco — and you can walk every metre of it.
- Marina BayThe entire bay you're standing beside was open sea until 1992 — 38 years of reclamation drained the anchorage and pushed the Singapore River's mouth inland.
- Gardens by the BayThe world's largest glass greenhouse anchors a 105-hectare park on Singapore's Marina Reservoir.
- Singapore FlyerFor six years this was the tallest Ferris wheel on earth — Las Vegas finally beat it in 2014, by just 2.6 metres.