The Maritime Experiential Museum
The main entrance of the museum | |
Location within Singapore | |
Former name | Maritime Xperiential Museum Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium |
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| Established | 15 October 2011 |
| Dissolved | 2 March 2020 |
| Location | 8 Sentosa Gateway, Singapore 098269 |
| Coordinates | 1°15′30.0″N 103°49′13.8″E / 1.258333°N 103.820500°E |
| Type | maritime museum |
| Website | www |
The Maritime Experiential Museum (Simplified Chinese: 海事博物馆及水族馆 (Maritime Museum and Aquarium)), formerly the Maritime Xperiential Museum and the Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium, was a museum in Resorts World Sentosa, Sentosa, Singapore, built to house the Jewel of Muscat. It was opened on 15 October 2011[1] and was closed on 2 March 2020 to become part of the new Singapore Oceanarium, an expansion of the former S.E.A. Aquarium.[2][3]
Attractions
The museum's main attraction was a 15m tall reconstruction of an ancient Chinese ship which is created based on historical accounts of Chinese mariner and diplomat,Zheng He's journeys to the "Western Ocean" (Indian Ocean).[4] Behind the Chinses ship was a replica of a 9th-century Arabian dhow, the Jewel Of Muscat, which was gifted to Singapore by the Sultanate of Oman.[4]
Surrounding both ships is the Souk Gallery which is a collection of dioramas of ancient markets in Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Iran and Malindi in Africa .[4]
At the end of the gallery, the museum had a simulator, Typhoon Theatre, to let visitors experience what happened when a Chinese junk is caught in a storm.[4] Visitors subsequently go down a water-themed walkway from the simulator into a gallery with artefacts recovered from a 13th-century wreck off Bakau in Indonesia.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Master of the Sea". The New Paper. 15 October 2011. pp. 14–15.
- ^ Resorts World Sentosa's "media alert": Resorts World Sentosa Bids Farewell to Crane Dance and The Maritime Experiential Museum, 13 January 2020. In: RWSentosa.com
- ^ "RWS closing Crane Dance, Maritime Experiential Museum on Mar 2". CNA Lifestyle. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
- ^ a b c d e "Sailing into the past". The Straits Times. 29 September 2011. pp. C2.