Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum is Singapore's natural history museum, at 2 Conservatory Drive on the Kent Ridge campus of the National University of Singapore (NUS), in the Queenstown planning area. Its collection traces back to the Raffles Museum, and NUS dates its Zoological Reference Collection, once called the Raffles Collection, to 1849. Named after the businessman and philanthropist Lee Kong Chian, the seven-storey museum of about 8,500 square metres was launched on 18 April 2015 and opened to the public on 28 April 2015. NUS gives the holdings as over 560,000 catalogued lots and more than a million specimens, most of them from the region.

The main gallery has 15 zones that trace the development of life on Earth. Its centrepiece is a group of three diplodocid sauropod skeletons, nicknamed Prince, Apollonia and Twinky, each about 80 per cent complete and excavated between 2007 and 2010 at a quarry in Ten Sleep in the United States. In the mammal zone hangs the 10.6 metre skeleton of a sperm whale recovered off Singapore in July 2015 and unveiled on 14 March 2016. A mezzanine heritage zone covers the museum's own history and includes a Cabinet of Curiosities. The museum opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm, with last admission at 4.30pm, and closes on Mondays, including Monday public holidays unless stated otherwise. Kent Ridge MRT station on the Circle Line is the nearest station.