Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum is a natural history museum at the Kent Ridge Campus of the National University of Singapore (2 Conservatory Drive, Singapore 117377), officially opened on 18 April 2015. Named after prominent businessman and philanthropist Lee Kong Chian, it inherited the natural history collections of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, whose origins trace to 1849. It holds more than 560,000 catalogued lots and over a million specimens from the region, with about 2,000 exhibited in the galleries, including the 10.6m sperm whale exhibit 'Jubi Lee' unveiled in 2016.