Art Science Museum

Address: Marina Bay Sands 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore
Opening hours:
    Daily 10am-7pm (last admission at 6pm)

ArtScience Museum is a museum located within the integrated resort of Marina Bay Sands in the Downtown Core of the Central Area in Singapore. Opened on 17 February 2011 by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, it is the world's first ArtScience museum. Although it has a permanent exhibition, ArtScience Gallery, the ArtScience Museum mainly hosts touring exhibitions curated by other museums. 

When I visited ArtScience Museum, I saw an exhibition called Future World.

 Art and technology collide in a spectacular way at Future World. The new permanent exhibition at the ArtScience Museum, on show for the next few years, features 15 installations by teamLab. Comprising over 400 members who come from backgrounds as diverse as engineering, mathematics and, of course, art, the Japanese collective are known for exploring how the natural and digital worlds interact with each other. So it goes without saying this show features more than canvases on bare white walls. The works respond and change according to movement and other forms of visitor interaction. TeamLab tell us more about five of the most eye-catching pieces at Future World.

1. Black Waves

 Black Waves is an expression of nature, rendered entirely in digital technology. It depicts the sea in the style of traditional Japanese painting. In the Japanese tradition, oceans, rivers and bodies of water are often represented as a series of curvilinear lines. The movement of these lines gives the impression that water itself is alive. teamLab have created this effect by calculating the interaction of hundreds of thousands of individual water particles, and then representing the movement of waves in a crescendo of white foam in a virtual 3D environment. Black Waves blurs the boundary between viewer and the artwork, and invites visitors to regard themselves as part of the seascape, thereby understanding that there is no separation between ourselves and nature.

2. Sliding through the Fruit Field

 Transiting from the Nature section of the exhibition, to the Town section, is a new artwork, that will take the place of the physical slide in Future World. Sliding through the Fruit Field is a playful and colourful interactive artwork designed for children that is projected onto a newly designed slide.
Visitors become a beam of life-giving sunlight, and as they glide down the slope, their energy is transferred to the fruit field, causing flowers and fruit to blossom and grow. As the different elements interact in the field, new seeds are sown, leading to new life.

3. Sketch Town
This installation is a depiction of a fictitious town, based on Singapore that includes recognizable landmarks, such as, ArtScience Museum, the Merlion and the Singapore Flyer. Young visitors use crayons and paper to draw a building, a car, or a plane for Sketch Town. When their two-dimensional pictures are placed in a digital scanner, they enter the town, becoming 3D animated objects. The visitors' urban designs become part of a vast projected city, which they can physically interact with through touch and movement, bringing the town to life. Touch a car, for example, and it will speed up, or change direction.

4. Light Ball Orchestra
Beachball-sized globes of multicoloured light and sound are your instruments in this electrifying, one-of-a-kind orchestra. Touch any ball to change the colour and sound of the balls around it, creating a resonating effect throughout this dazzling environment.
Enjoy creating a playful and dynamic space with other visitors, as their participation with the Light Ball Orchestra sends out ripples in different directions to interact with yours. Work together by pushing, bouncing and rolling the balls to continuously change the composition, color and sound of the orchestra.

5. Crystal Universe
Behold a seemingly infinite number of light particles inside the scintillating Crystal Universe. This stunning artwork is created with teamLab’s Interactive 4-D Vision technology and more than 170,000 LED lights, giving the illusion of stars moving in space. Move beyond the stars to encounter astrophysical phenomena such as planets, galaxies and even gravitational waves.
Find yourself at the centre of the universe, as the light and body of the installation responds to your mass and motion. Change the fabric of the universe itself by 'swiping' planets and stars from smart devices within the installation, and watch them become part of the dazzling environment around you. Surrounded by celestial wonders, reflect upon your own place within the vastness of the cosmos.

 

So far, I loved this museum. See you in another exhibition!

A Head Full of Dreams Tour is the seventh concert tour currently being undertaken by British alternative rock band Coldplay, launched in support of their namesake seventh studio album A Head Full of Dreams. Marking the band's return to large-scale venues, after the brief and intimate Ghost Stories Tour, the tour will visit stadiums and arenas across five continents, with a total of 120 shows penned.

Lucky me, they held their concert  in Asia. And they came to Singapore...wohoooo~!

My dream came true! I really want to see their concert! Since they only held in Europe and America, Asia tour is the most awaited-moment. The highly anticipated return of Coldplay to Singapore after 8 years has been met with a tremendous response from Singapore and regional fans. Tickets for the first show were completely sold out within two hours of launch with just over 40,000 tickets taken up in total for the two presale

They held their concert in Singapore Sports Hub exactly at Singapore National Stadium.

The Singapore Sports Hub is a state-of-the-art, fully integrated sports, entertainment and lifestyle hub that was built in 2014 and hosts sporting and entertainment events. It replaced the former National Stadium on the recommendation of then Community Development and Sports Minister Abdullah Tarmugi in Parliament in 2001. His proposal was based on a Committee on Sporting Singapore report to promote a culture of sports in the city-state.

  

The A Head Full of Dreams Tour boasts extensive laser light and pyrotechnic visuals similar to the Mylo Xyloto Tour, and also sees a reappearance of the Xylobands as a central part of the show's visual design. The tour consists of eight legs, with a total of 123 shows across Latin America, where they performed for the first time since the Viva la Vida Tour, Europe, North America, where they embarked on their very first stadium tour of the United States, Oceania, and Asia. The first show of the tour was held at the Estadio Ciudad de La Plata in La Plata, Argentina, on 31 March 2016 and is set to conclude at the same venue on 15 November 2017.

Similar to the Mylo Xyloto Tour, the A Head Full of Dreams Tour is typically split into five parts; an introduction on the main "A-stage", a performance on the "B-stage", a second set on the A-stage, a set on the outward "C-stage", and finally an encore on the A-stage. Songs played on the A-stage are accompanied by the show's full laser light and pyrotechnic visuals, while performances on the B-stage are not accompanied by such, and songs played on the C-stage are strictly acoustic performances.

Shows typically feature over 20 songs on the setlist, many of which played differently from the recorded versions of the songs, usually combined with intros and outros from other tracks. For example, "Paradise", which closes the opening set of the show, is played with a remix of the song by Tiësto as an outro, while "Fix You" is played with the instrumental background from "Midnight". A majority of the songs played during the tour come from the namesake album A Head Full of Dreams, and from the band's previous studio album, Ghost Stories, though songs from the band's earlier discography, such as Mylo Xyloto and A Rush of Blood to the Head are routinely played and shuffled across the setlist between shows. Frontman Chris Martin expressed satisfaction with the setlist, stating that the band were "enjoying playing really old songs", and that the tour "will finally have a setlist where we feel good about it from start to finish.

 Hello again Singapore!

I have visit Singapore for several times,
and this time just because coldplay held a concert here hahaha..

Back again to Jurong, and try some local food here.

I found "Ayza Restaurant", it was like a food court. Many kind of food you can choosed here.

 

So, are you ready for the concert tomorrow?

Let's having fun with Coldplay!

You’ve probably seen images of Singapore’s national icon, the mythical Merlion with the head of a lion and the body of a fish.A fishy tale. There are five authorised Merlion statues around Singapore today.
The body symbolises Singapore's humble beginnings as a fishing village when it was called Temasek, meaning 'sea town' in Old Javanese. Its head represents Singapore’s original name, Singapura, or ‘lion city’ in Malay.

Today, you can glimpse this legend at Merlion Park. Spouting water from its mouth, the Merlion statue stands tall at 8.6 metres and weighs 70 tonnes. This icon is a ‘must-see’ for tourists visiting Singapore, similar to other significant landmarks around the world.Built by local craftsman Lim Nang Seng, it was unveiled on 15 September 1972 by then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew at the mouth of the Singapore River, to welcome all visitors to Singapore.

But with the completion of Esplanade Bridge in 1997, the statue could no longer be viewed clearly from the waterfront. So in 2002, the Merlion was relocated 120 metres away from the original position to where it stands in Merlion Park today, in front of Fullerton Hotel and overlooking Marina Bay.
The park also houses a smaller Merlion statue. Known as the ‘Merlion cub’, it stands at 2 metres tall and weighs three tonnes. The original sculpture and its cub are the most well-known among the seven approved Merlion statues in Singapore.

 

Kampong Glam still retains strong ties to the Native-Malay and Muslim community, and has sometimes been termed the "Muslim Quarter" due to its history. The Muslim population still remains a significant presence in Kampong Glam, especially in Bussorah Street. The area remains a centre for Muslim activities and the Sultan Mosque remains a major landmark and congregation point for Singapore Muslims.

Getting There
by MRT
The nearest MRT station is Bugis (EW12, East West Line), which is 5min walk from Arab Street
by footThe Kampong Glam area can by reached within 5-10min from the Golden Mile Complex or . 10-15min walk from Little India. 

What's on Kampong Glam?

 1. Sultan Mosque

Historically, Kampong Glam was the home of the Sultan of Singapore, hence the name of its main mosque. The area was set aside in the early days for Malay, Arab and Bugis traders.
The shophouses in the lane leading up to the Sultan Mosque are popular place to visit for dinner in the evening. The pricy but good restaurants serve mostly Middle Eastern and Pakistani cuisine.

 Sultan Mosque, is a mosque located at Muscat Street and North Bridge Road within the Kampong Glam precinct of the district of Rochor in Singapore. The mosque is considered one of the most important mosques in Singapore. The prayer hall and domes highlight the mosque's star features.

2. Haji Lane

Haji Lane, this narrow lane behind Arab street houses many fashion shops and Middle Eastern cafes a rare find in Singapore, a wall graffiti near Haji Lane.

3. Zam-Zam Restaurant

Having been around since 1908, Singapore Zam Zam serves food that has been time tested and proven high in demand for over 100 years – that’s an accomplishment in a serious food city like Singapore.
The restaurant is located right across the street from Sultan Mosque, on the corner of Arab Street and Bridge Road, just a short walk from the Bugis area of Singapore.
Singapore Zam Zam is one of those restaurants that looks like it’s really small from the bottom floor.
But go up the flight of stairs to the right, and there’s an entire upstairs with multiple dining rooms and about 30 extra tables in an AC environment.

Time to explore the city!

I will tell you about Marina Bay Sands and its neighborhood.

Marina Bay Sands is a destination for those who appreciate luxury. An integrated resort notable for transforming Singapore’s city skyline, it comprises three 55-storey towers of extravagant hotel rooms and luxury suites equipped with personal butler service. In addition, its architecture is made complete with the Sands SkyPark® which crowns the three towers.
Shopaholics will rejoice in the rows of luxury retailers at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands®, which houses the largest collection of coveted designer boutiques in Asia. Complementing the retail space are delectable dining options, which includes restaurants by celebrity chefs, fine dining and casual eateries.
A centre for the intersection of arts and science

Near Marina Bay Sands, there are several place you can enjoy.

such as Art Science Museum, Helix bridge, Gardens By The Bay etc..

1. Art Science Museum

ArtScience Museum™ at Marina Bay Sands is the boldly iconic lotus-inspired building that is home to highly raved exhibition, FUTURE WORLD: Where Art Meets Science. The museum also hosts blockbuster touring exhibitions that explores creative processes at the heart of art, science, technology and culture such as Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal, Collider and more.

2. Helix Bridge
The Helix Bridge, officially The Helix and previously known as the Double Helix Bridge, is a pedestrian bridge linking Marina Centre with Marina South in the Marina Bay area in Singapore. 

3. Gardens By The Bay

Located next to Marina Reservoir, Gardens by the Bay offers breath-taking waterfront views. This multi-award winning horticultural destination spans 101 hectares of reclaimed land, and is made up of two main areas – Bay South Garden and Bay East Garden.

 What will you find there?

a. Flower Dome
The Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions and houses a collection of plants from deserts all over the world.

b. Dragonfly & Kingfisher Lakes
These beautiful lakes are a rich source of aquatic life and also act as an eco-filter to cleanse water pumped in from the Marina reservoir.

c. Cloud Forest
This 35-metre tall mountain showcases plant life from tropical highlands up to 2,000 metres above sea level

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 d. Supertrees

 These stunning man-made trees of up to 16 storeys tall can be found all around the Gardens, with 12 at the Supertree Grove.