This exhibition will close on 13 October 2024. Join our farewell celebrations from 21 September to 13 October, and enjoy free admission for all to our museum's galleries for the closing weekend of 12 & 13 October.

Step into our Glass Rotunda and lose yourself in the enchanted nightscapes of Story of the Forest. Inspired by the museum's treasured William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, the installation transforms 69 drawings from the collection into three-dimensional animations that invite you to interact up close with the wildlife and landscapes of 19th century Malaya.

Framed by the natural foliage of Fort Canning, our Glass Rotunda is a modern architectural response to our 19th century Neo-Palladian Rotunda that has existed since the museum’s opening in 1887. The second level of the original Rotunda is home to the Goh Seng Choo Gallery, dedicated to hosting the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings – our museum's most prized collection. Story of the Forest imbues it with new life, infusing Singapore's colonial past with present-day modernity.

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