Of Whales and Dinosaurs – The Story of Singapore`s Natural History Museum Tan

Of Whales and DinosaursThe Story of Singapore's Natural History Museum\nAuthor(s): Kevin Y. L. Tan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: NUS Press, Singapore\nImprint: NUS Press\nISBN-13: 9789814722131, 978-9814722131\nSynopsis\nSingapore's collection of Southeast Asian animalsone of the world's largestdates back to the old Raffles Museum, officially established in [url] the opening of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in 2015, the original Raffles Museum has \""\""reincarnated\""\"" and the loop on its remarkable 127-year history has closed.\nBeneath the sleek exterior of today's modern museum building lies a saga of titanic struggles and changes. That the collections survived at allthrough the multiple challenges of the nineteenth century, the disruption of World War Two, and its potential disintegration in the face of Singapore's modernizationis nothing short of miraculous. This book is not only an institutional history of the museum but also tells the story of frustrations, commitme.