Of Whales and Dinosaurs cover 400Although the new Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum officially opened its doors to the public for the first time on 28 April 2015, the full history of this extraordinary new museum in fact goes back in time for more than a century and a half.

Therefore in honor of the opening of the new museum, The National University of Singapore Press has published Kevin Y.L. Tan’s Of Whales and Dinosaurs: The Story of Singapore’s Natural History Museum, the first book to recount the entire history of this remarkable and storied institution.