National Museum of Singapore | teamLab

Featuring flowers, plants, and animals native to Singapore and its region, Story of the Forest has turned the Glass Rotunda of the National Museum of Singapore into a mesmerizing digital art piece. The large-scale installation consists of a drum-shaped space with a domed ceiling 15 meters high, with a bridge spanning across the dome and a 170 meter passage that continues on from the bridge and down to the base of the drum.

The dome ceiling showcases the infinitely expanding universe where the flowers of Singapore bloom and change over time.

Crossing the sky bridge through the falling flowers of the dome, visitors descend down the passageway through a vast interactive forest inhabited by the animals of Singapore. As visitors proceed, the forest changes from morning to night. The forest also changes in accordance with the dry and wet seasons of Singapore.

On entering the base of the dome, if visitors stand still while close to the wall, an area of ground emerges, a forest rises up, and animals appear. The artwork is depicted in real time by a computer program. Previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur.