ArtScience Museum Opens in Singapore By ELAINE GLUSAC

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I CAN'T RESIST to pass the information on, even though I left Singapore just before the opening ....Next time..



Source: http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/artscience-museum-opens-in-singapore/

Singapore has a bauble to add to its collection: the ArtScience Museum, which opened last month in a building designed by Moshe Safdie. The museum adds a brainy element to the Las Vegas-style Marina Bay Sands development, which includes a casino, 2,561-room hotel, seven restaurants from big-name chefs and a park on the roof.

Some design features are a tribute to the museum’s content. For example, the lotus-blossom-shaped building funnels rainwater from the roof via a 115-foot waterfall through the central atrium to a lily pond in the lobby and, later, the restrooms.

About 50,000 square feet of interior exhibition space covers the creative overlap of artistic and scientific invention, including a suspended model of Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machine. Touch-screen computers survey developments in architecture, transportation and exploration. Current exhibitions include “The Silk Road,” devoted to the Asia-to-Middle East trading route (through March 27), and “Genghis Khan,” above (through April 10).

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