The National Museum of Singapore (nationalmuseum.sg) just unveiled a trippy new art piece, Story of the Forest, where indigenous flora and fauna populate 360-degree screens.

 

Designed by Japanese artists teamLab, the installation is a sensory overload of tropical flowers slowly falling from a starlit sky and exotic beasts peacefully pacing about, all of which are native to the city state.

 

It's all based on the museum's prized collection of watercolors, the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings.

 

The team used sensors and a drum-shaped projector to animate the 69 drawings on the dome’s 15-meter-high and 170-meter-long walls.

 

Admission tickets cost SG$8-15 (B200-376) for the exhibition and SG$18 (B451) for an all-access pass to the whole museum.