The Artscience Museum located along the Marina Bay Sands waterfront co-locates exhibits that bridge the relationship between Arts and Sciences. The museum is organized as two major exhibition spaces, positioned around a central open-space atrium. The first exhibits hover within a sculpturally shaped form over the promenade, and a second collection of gallery spaces are located beneath a large water lily garden. The building is supported by a steel lattice diagrid structure and ten steel columns –a sculptural centerpiece that allows the building to seemingly float above. The geometry of the shape is often compared to a lotus, and is clad with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP), typically used in high-performance racing yachts.Opened on 17 February 2011 by Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, it is the world’s first ArtScience museum, featuring major exhibitions that blend art, science, culture and technology.
