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Esplanade Drive Will Be Closed� to Traffic on Thursday Morning.� Two 500-Tonne Cranes Will Park� on the Bridge

The Merlion will move to its new home at One ESPLANADE Fullerton on Sunday morning. But to get DRIVE there, its journey has been broken up into 1,2,3 three stages, which HOIST! start today. Fullerton Hotel Existing FULLERTON Merlion COLLYERROAD Park QUAY Old position ESPLANADE One DRIVE Fullerton New position STEP 2 Marina Bay Esplanade Drive will be closed to traffic on Thursday morning. Two 500-tonne cranes will park on the bridge. One will hoist STEP 1 the Merlion from the barge At 9 am today, a crane will lift the onto the bridge. Merlion from its current position at Merlion Park onto a barge moored just beside it. The barge will The other sail and dock beside the will the lift Esplanade Bridge. it from the bridge onto the barge, which has ESPLANADE DRIVE now sailed to the other side of the bridge. The barge will take the icon to its new home. This whole step will take about five hours. STEP 3 On Sunday, the Merlion will be installed on its pedestal at One Fullerton. Vice-Chancellor Kuan August 1972 Sept 15, 1972 April 28, 2002 September Sai Kheong of the then Work on The official installation of The Merlion 2002 Key facts University of Singapore, the statue the Merlion at the mouth of is installed Official who is also Ambassador completed. the Singapore River by the at its new opening ◆ to the Philippines, then Prime Minister, home. The Merlion is made up of a lion’s designs the statue. Mr Lee Kuan Yew. head and a fish-like body ◆ Height: 8 m ◆ Weight: 70 tonnes March 26, 1964 ◆ Singapore Tourism Cost of the Merlion project: $165,000 Board recommends the ◆ Merlion be used as its November 1971 How many Merlions are official crest. Mr Fraser Work on the statue begins. Nov 19, 1997 1998 there on this tiny island? Brunner, a member of July 20, Local craftsman Lim Nang Seng, winner Launching of the organisation’s The water pump stops There are five merlions in Singapore. the Souvenir Committee 1966 of several prizes in the Singapore new name and corporate logo working. Restoration Two are located at Merlion Park, and and curator of the Van Installation of Handicraft and Design competition without the Merlion symbol. With work includes putting Mount Faber, Sentosa (right) and Kleef Aquarium, comes the lion and fish organised by the then Singapore Tourism the Tourism 21 blueprint expanding the STPB’s in two new pumps Tourism Court, off Tanglin Road, have up with the design of hybrid as a trade- Promotion Board (STPB) in 1970, is role beyond that of promoting tourism, the board costing $200,000 one each. the crest. mark finalised. commissioned to build the statue. is renamed the Singapore Tourism Board. each. TIEN CHUNG PING and LIM YONG.

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