Singapore’s ArtScience Museum will be the site of an incredibly immersive traveling exhibit that has been making its way around the world. Curated by a museum in London, the exhibit includes hundreds of objects from art, history, and the natural world. There are a number of highlights that visitors can look forward to seeing as a part of the exhibit, and the display is not one to be missed.
There are a number of fossils of extinct animals that will be on display, highlighting the effect of climate change, the impact of human beings on the natural world around them, and other causes. Visitors can look forward to seeing a model of a dodo bird, which became extinct after sailors hunted it too much on its island home. Other animals, including skeletons of an ancient giant sloth and the animal that used to hunt it, the saber-toothed tiger, will be displayed by each other. This will help visitors understand the scale and size of predator to prey, as well as boost the imagination for what such a hunt would look like all those thousands of years ago.
Visitors will also need to look out for written examples of exploration, evolution, and the scientists who enabled modern discoveries that shape our understanding of the world. People can look forward to seeing handwritten pages of Charles Darwin’s seminal “On the Origin of Species,” which sparked evolutionary theory. They can also view one of the rarest books in the world — John James Audubon’s “Birds of America,” which includes meticulously detailed paintings of different species of birds in North America.
Art has a special place in the scientific world, especially in the study of the natural world. From Audubon’s watercolors of different bird species to other sculptors and painters of animals, drawings and models of animals and plants were sometimes all scientists had to go by in their studies. Nothing is more of a breathtaking example of this than a wonderful glass sculpture of an octopus that will be on display. Made by a father and son team of modelers, the octopus is minutely detailed and accurately reflects the color of the specimen in question. While many organic materials can be preserved in alcohol for further study, many animals will lose their color in the preservation process. The glass sculpture ensures that scientists will be able to study the color for generations to come.
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To read more about the upcoming exhibit at ArtScience Museum and all of its highlights, go to http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/bone-up-on-nature.