Sensory Odyssey: Into the Heart of Our Living World

Sensory Odyssey: Into the Heart of Our Living World
27 May 2023

I am really happy that ArtScience Museum is presenting the Asian premiere of an exhibition that takes visitors an immersive journey into nature.
Sensory Odyssey (27 May – 29 October 2023) is a show designed to awaken our senses to the wonders of nature, immersing us in the sights, sounds and scents of the natural world.

Starting in Africa, visitors will be part of an expedition that takes them from the rainforest canopy of South America, across the wide expanse of the Indian Ocean, to the magnificence of the Arctic Circle. Through state-of-the-art technology, this exhibition gives visitors the rare opportunity to intimately explore some of the natural world’s most extraordinary environments alongside the living creatures and organisms that inhabit them. Each of the seven habitats featured in the show includes stunning original footage of nature shot on location around the world by natural history filmmakers. These captivating scenes are presented in a series of immersive environments featuring hyper-realistic 8K resolution projection, spatial audio, and unique scents that will engage and magnify visitors’ senses.

The exhibition concludes with a gallery titled Discover: Our Nature Our Stories, where visitors can learn about the flora and fauna they have encountered as well as meet seven experts and advocates from Singapore who are spearheading conservation efforts in our own region.

It culminates in having visitors participate in creating a collective installation of a mangrove tree – one of Asia’s most important tree species. As each visitor contributes to the growth of the mangrove tree in the gallery, ArtScience Museum, through its partnership with World Wide Fund for Nature, will support planting of thousands of mangrove trees in Southeast Asia.

At ArtScience Museum, we no longer feel it is enough to do exhibitions about nature. It isn’t enough to simply implore visitors to care about the environment. We want to create real world change. So, after the sensorial expedition of the exhibition, our visitors are contributing to concrete conservation work. In the final gallery, we ask our visitors to contribute a leaf to a mangrove tree installation. And for every leaf they add to our tree, we planted a real tree in South East Asia.
By the end of the exhibition we expect to plants at least 20,000 new mangrove trees in Malaysia, in collaboration with World Wide Fund for Nature.