Dinosaurs are dead fish liaw. Only $1.89million raised. Target - $12 million

[Confuseous]

The deadline set by its sellers has come and gone, but the money to buy three dinosaurs for Singapore's upcoming natural history museum is still not in the bag.

Since it embarked on an intense race to raise $12 million for the fossils from Wyoming in the United States a month ago, the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research has managed to collect only $1.89 million through several donors and public donations through its online portal.

It has since negotiated an extension of the deadline - originally July 31 - with its American sellers and now has one to two months to raise the rest of the money.

The immediate task is to collect $8 million first to secure the three dinosaurs. The remaining $4 million, to be used for transport and to mount the exhibits, can be raised later.

The fund-raising team is still reaching out to potential donors. Some have asked about the possibility of naming rights. Prof Ng said the museum will explore the option with them if the donation is substantial.

What happens if it fails to raise the money needed?

'If we fail, the country would have lost a great opportunity to bring in something of great educational value,' said Professor Peter Ng, director of the Raffles Museum.

 

[mako65]

Bloody goondoos paying $12m for all these common fossils! Don't think paleontology is well received here...really a waste of $!

 

[singveld]

just buy the mould, good enough.

 

[flkyflky]

This a STUPID ploy to enrich USA!:oIo:

Another Madoff Scam only!

Buy this salted fish better than US rubbish Dinnosuars:

 

[palden]

Go china buy. Cheaper. Search on baidu or alibaba la.

 

[weetabix]

we already have one living , talking and still publishing fossil. Money better spend on preserving this one macam Lenin or Mao so that peolpe down the road can either pay respect / admire / or otherwise. I am sure it won't cost more than 12 million. Plus , could be a tourists' atrraction too to bring in revenue. no?

 

[rodent2005]

What happens if it fails to raise the money needed?

'If we fail, the country would have lost a great opportunity to bring in something of great educational value,' said Professor Peter Ng, director of the Raffles Museum.

What educational value could there possibly be?

 

[po2wq]

The deadline set by its sellers has come and gone, but the money to buy three dinosaurs for Singapore's upcoming natural history museum is still not in the bag ...

ask ah loon n his jin gang la ... dey got their 8 mths bonus wat! ... n now njoying life elsewhere sum mor ... dey shud donate their moni otherwise dey r ze main reason 4 "If we fail, the country would have lost a great opportunity to bring in something of great educational value" ... :(

 

[Varuna]

just buy the mould, good enough.

I agree. Is a mould not good enough for educational value? With today's technology, a replica is as flawless as the real thing to the naked eyes. As if they will be letting every visitor feel and touch the specimen. They'd rather use millions of money to buy a useless stack of skeletons than to use it to safe the starving poor from turning into skeletons.

 

[Fook Seng]

What educational value could there possibly be?

Whatever. That two million dollars is a total waste putting it away in the Raffles Museum, far away from the centre of tourist attraction. There is little hope of recouping that money. It just panders to the academic need for possession. Maybe like fixed property, there should be a property tax attached to this to discourage possession for the sake of possession.