The Maritime Experiential Museum

The main entrance of the museum
Location within Singapore
Former name	Maritime Xperiential Museum Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium
Established	15 October 2011; 12 years ago (2011-10-15)
Dissolved	2 March 2020; 3 years ago (2020-03-02)
Location	8 Sentosa Gateway, Singapore 098269
Coordinates	1°15′30.0″N 103°49′13.8″E / 1.258333°N 103.820500°E / 1.258333; 103.820500
Type	maritime museum
Website	www.rwsentosa.com/en/attractions/the-maritime-experiential-museum

The Maritime Experiential Museum (Simplified Chinese: 海事博物馆及水族馆 (Maritime Museum and Aquarium)), formerly the Maritime Xperiential Museum and the Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium, was a museum in Resorts World Sentosa, Sentosa, Singapore, built to house the Jewel of Muscat. It was opened on 15 October 2011^[1] and was closed on 2 March 2020 to become part of the new Singapore Oceanarium, an expansion of the former S.E.A. Aquarium.^[2][3]

Attractions

The museum's main attraction was a 15m tall reconstruction of an ancient Chinese ship which is created based on historical accounts of Chinese mariner and diplomat,Zheng He's journeys to the "Western Ocean" (Indian Ocean).^[4] Behind the Chinses ship was a replica of a 9th-century Arabian dhow, the Jewel Of Muscat, which was gifted to Singapore by the Sultanate of Oman.^[4]

Surrounding both ships is the Souk Gallery which is a collection of dioramas of ancient markets in Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Iran and Malindi in Africa .^[4]

At the end of the gallery, the museum had a simulator, Typhoon Theatre, to let visitors experience what happened when a Chinese junk is caught in a storm.^[4] Visitors subsequently go down a water-themed walkway from the simulator into a gallery with artefacts recovered from a 13th-century wreck off Bakau in Indonesia.^[4]