LKCNHM

From flying lizards to ancient fossils — LKCNHM's website design gives Singapore's premier natural history museum a digital presence as rich and layered as its collections.

Web Design — LKCNHM

Museum Website · Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum · Singapore

A design project for the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum — Singapore's leading natural history institution, home to Southeast Asia's most significant biodiversity and paleontological collections, including the famous dinosaur specimens Apollonia, Prince, and T. rex.

The image visible here captures the museum's specimen photography style: a Draco lizard — the gliding lizard native to Southeast Asian forests — photographed with scientific precision against a clean white background, its colorful patagium (wing membrane) fully displayed. The specimen photography is both scientifically accurate and visually striking, designed to translate the physical museum experience into a compelling digital one.

The gold and dark atmospheric framing in the background suggests a website that uses dramatic, cinematic treatments for its hero sections — an approach appropriate for a museum whose collections inspire genuine wonder. Natural history museums sit at the intersection of science and storytelling, and the design direction reflects that: precise and evocative in equal measure.

A museum website where every specimen photograph earns its full frame.