Science Centre Singapore
Jurong East, Singapore
June 2013
Merlion Wayfarer was recently visited the Singapore Science Centre for Megabugs Returns! ("Facing The Super-Sized" and "Marvel At The Small Things In Life"). What thrilled her was that, to this day, as an adult, the Science Centre still enthralls. Here's why...
- InsectMania!, one of the side events from Megabugs Returns! is a talk with hands-on experience about exciting and fascinating bugs like stick insects and the giant hissing cockroaches...
Life stages of the silk worm...
These are not hissing because they are well-fed and relaxed...
Fragile stick insects where their perfect twig-like camouflage...
Bigger than a palm!
Creepy crawlies that are edible or useful...
- The aquarium with its fascinating displays of saltwater fishes...
Watch out for the moray eel!
Oh hello, Dory!
- Geological exhibits showing meteorites from space, rocks from different parts of Singapore, even benches made from stone...
Try lifting them!
A recipe for a typhoon...
Rocks from all over Singapore...
- Merlion Wayfarer's favourite - The Tesla Coil demonstration, a highly dramatic and electrifying live demonstration of high voltage electricity with a 3.5 million volt coil in action, and generating electrical arcs of up to three metres!
Cover your ears!
- iZ Hero is a digital exhibition with both panels and games to inform and entertain the young on good cyber habits...
- Perennial favourites like the electric chair, the T-Rex skeleton at the entrance, and the Muppet Show's Statler and Waldorf lookalikes...
- Candy Unwrapped uncovers the surprising biology, chemistry, physiology and psychology behind the world of candy...
In this display of scores of different types of candies, see how candy companies continue out-gross, out- gore, out-shock and out-sour each other to find the ultimate extreme candy...
A simple jelly bean question to illustrate the power of compounding...
Damaging facts about sweet food...
Dough-making for kids...
- End the visit with Panda-monium at the Omni-Theatre with The Panda Adventure...
Science Centre is truly a place for the young and the young-at-heart!
Highlights from Megabugs Returns!
