Opening Hours
Thu, 17 Apr - Mon, 12 May 2025
9.00am - 9.00pm
Rediscover the tulips that started it all in the eastern reaches of Türkiye, where wild tulips bloom. Interspersed throughout the colourful landscape is the exploration of the diverse civilisations which have shaped Türkiye’s society through time – all linked by the common thread of an abiding adoration of the tulip.
Thu, 17 Apr - Mon, 12 May 2025
9.00am - 9.00pm
Admission charge to Flower Dome applies
Flower Dome
Homer's Iliad recounts the ten-year Trojan War, sparked when Paris, a prince of Troy, whisked Helen, the Spartan queen. The Greeks ultimately conquered Troy (an ancient city of Hisarlık, Türkiye) by leaving a hollow wooden horse filled with soldiers.
Witness the legendary Trojan Horse, tracing an arc of empire and aesthetics across Türkiye’s landscape in Flower Dome.
Over twelve thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers hauled 16-tonne limestone pillars to build Göbekli Tepe on the slopes of the Tektek Mountains (east of Şanlıurfa) in southeastern Türkiye. Most carvings depict animals likely symbolising protective totems or ancestral spirits.
Mosaic art traces its origins to ancient Mesopotamia around 3000 BCE. Early mosaics discovered in temple sites used materials such as coloured stones, shells, and ivory, arranged into simple decorative patterns.
Inspired by Hellenistic mosaic traditions, 24 Art Club students from Chua Chu Kang Secondary School crafted three mosaics featuring Ottoman motifs, now on display in the Flower Dome.
Perched on a limestone ridge overlooking the Mesopotamian plains, Mardin is an ancient city in southeastern Türkiye. Its houses, stacked like steps to the sky, are hewn from locally quarried yellow limestone, which soaks up the sun and gives Mardin its golden glow. Old Mardin was declared a protected urban site and put under conservation in 1985.
Tulipa 'Fire Wings'
A lily-flowered tulip with goblet-shaped blooms and recurved, pointed tepals. Scarlet streaks rise from the base of the flower, flaring into golden yellow along the edges like flickering flames.
Tulipa acuminata
Tulipa acuminata (or the Istanbul tulip) is a centuries-old cultivar from Türkiye, known for its six slender, dagger-like scarlet and yellow tepals, cultivated since the Ottoman Empire (1299–1923).
Tulipa ‘Spryng Break’
A triumph tulip that begins blooming in a creamy white bedecked with flickers of reddish pink flames that become more variegated as the flower ages.
Tulipa ‘Striped Crown’
A bi-coloured coronet tulip distinguished by highly variable speckling and striping of red and yellow.
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