Good Day everyone,

The Science Centre & Omni-Theatre located at Singapore Boon Lay Way is a fun place for children to learn. I must visit that place on each holiday trips to Singapore while I was young. But despite the increasing entrance fee, I insist that it's still a very good place to learn.

The Da Vinci exhibition had just started. Here is a link to the Science Centre website for your reference:
http://www.science.edu.sg/ssc/index.jsp


Omni-Theatre

Come share your experince & thoughts about this interesting centre.

Regards,
Liew.

This post has been edited by ah liew: Jun 20 2009, 09:52 PM

Been to tSingapore Science Center.

Best Science Center for me so far.Second best is Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.

I see, have you been to the S'pore Discovery Centre?
More to those S'pore NS stuffs displaying their fighter jets, tanks & etc.

Nope,didnt went there due to time constrains.

Thanks for sharing, too bad Malaysia doesn't have one.
Good day to you.

who told u malaysia dont have, you dont know i think ...

we do have Pusat Sains Negara and Planetarium Negara very nice place to visit...

Both are utter crap,compare to Powerhouse and Singapore Science Centre.

haha! basically he is right, I didn't know about it but I believe Aussie Powerhouse & S'pore Science Centre has a better maintenance compared to M'sia.

izzit the same as planetarium planetarium ?

in Malaysia that's the popular wan if i not mistaken?

Lol, I'd been there, and the only thing that I find amusing is the fact that I can touch the equipments (some of them) or else most of the things in there can be found in textbooks. =X

Still Powerhouse is also lack of maintainance.Not as bad as Malaysia though.

Some their exhibits are fun.

Malaysia have their own "sains senter"?
Darn !there's not even a single advertisement about it lol.
U guys sure it's really updated or it's still running some old science demostration.
E.g How to start fire with stones lol.

i dowan to compare who have the better science center here, are we making full use of it?

achieve the objective
To increase public awareness, appreciation, interest and understanding of Science and Technology

http://www.psn.gov.my/en/program/calendar_2006.htm

how many times we have been there, how many books u read there...
do u think every1 effort to go to Singapore

This post has been edited by ganabathi: Jun 15 2009, 05:26 PM

Been to Singapore Science Centre and Discovery Centre..Prefer the former..The latter is not my cup of tea..Kinda boring..

And Singapore Science Centre I only paid 4 SGD for student rate, even if I'm from Malaysia..haha

Great! now you know about it, perhaps pay a visit if you can.
At least this thread can start some awareness about the Pusat Sains Negara and Planetarium Negara.

I havent been going to National Science Center here. They dont update with their equipments.

It's more like they never update their equipments.

They got built in some new stuff. Like the aquarium before you enter. But the government should really spend some money so that our science center is on par with the singapores one.

The aquarium is there when i go there at 2000.

Should spend more money on maintenance & advertising. Otherwise don't even build it at all.

It's like our Zoo Negara, animals are not well fed & all look unhappy.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...74433&sec=focus

I dont agree.
Pusat sains negara is relatively new and they are making efforts to improve their exhibits and shows.

These are problem stemmed from the rise of digital age just like how newspaper are being affected by the internet news portals. I don't think the future generation would want to visit the zoo more than once.

Our tourism ministries seems more interested in selling the idea that Malaysia is rich in culture and shopping malls. Singapore government actually make the science center into a tourist attraction. City state like Singapore have different approach to these matters compared to Malaysia.

Malaysia's science center is actually not bad, but malaysians seems more interested in PKR vs BN and rempit around rather than educational matters like science

I strongly agree. It's a next step to the future & there are always pro & cons.
But S'pore govenrment still encourages & maintains their Zoos, Bird Parks & other attractions despite of their level in digital age way further ahead of M'sia. I think there is still a way to show our future generations the quality of cultures rather surfing the website.

I did mentioned above Singapore is a city state. Governing a city state is totally different compared to Malaysia. For one they don't need multiple bird park or zoo unlike Malaysia in which each state's capital is far apart and such. Tourism ministry plays a role as well, in Malaysia we're not putting heavy emphasis on our Zoo, Science center etc as tourist attraction because our 'attraction' are tourist places like eco park, KL's shopping, penang food. Singapore on the other hand has less of what we have, and so their approach in attracting tourist focus differently.

I am not saying there's no room for improvement but it's not up to me to do any of these. Minister's business

The last time i went there was 10 years ago.

It's not as new as you think.Now,i dont even want to go there anymore.

Alright, back to the topic please because I don't want to turn this into a political discussion which doesn't belongs in Science Lab. Thanks!

I've been to the Singapore Science Center a few years ago. I found it very fascinating. They had a special room with a huge screen and the seats will move according to the video that is played. If i'm not mistaken, the video was about Serengeti. Very good experience

You mean the Omni-Theather?
I watched the facinating S'pore story & Clif Hanger+Biology.
But whats Serengeti?
It's a happy place to spend time. I think one day is not enough to experience everthing there.

This post has been edited by ah liew: Jul 6 2009, 11:17 AM

It will take years for malaysia sains senta to be mature enough on how to think broadly then narrowing their vision.

It isnt because malaysian are more attracted to the recent rempit and political issues rather then educational values.

It's more mainly because when malaysia started some tourist attraction, it's boring,expensive and worst of all it's too late.

Malaysia's marketing view is totally like china but worst thing of all it doesnt even preserve the core values or objectives what they actually providing for.

At least in China due to high competition, they still spend the least effort rather then none to preserve the value of their product.

In Malaysia is usually about lets talk about money first. It doesnt matter what kind of crap comes out and if it doesnt attract much attention, it will juz be dismantle like how kids build lego and demolish it after they are bored with their result.

There's a few exception that will keep it retained. It's either because it's the only thing that they should have rather then be ashamed that malaysia doesnt have anything interesting at all. Or for the past years, they spend tonnes of method to mislead consumers into buying their products with their marketing cheat scheme.

Well at least even for a strict country like singapore, i still can catch sight on a cockatoo swearing in hokkien in Jurong Bird Park. Now that's some spectacular sight.

I went to our Malaysia PSN and Planetarium when I was like in primary school. Didn't really explored properly all those interesting stuffs there.

I can't remember what it's called, it was a while ago.

It's a huge place in Africa where the wildlife is preserved in a large open area.

Yea, 1 day is definetely not sufficient.