One more year to go: That's how long before Singapore's first-ever natural history museum located along Kent Ridge Crescent is scheduled to be completed.

And it will be the successor of the National University of Singapore’s Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research -- a small dingy little space located at a secluded corner at the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Science -- that was filled with stuffed animals that looked like they had seen better days.

The $46-million new museum will be a step up -- it will be home to more than 500,000 South-east Asian animal and plant specimens.

The coolest part? It will also house three sauropod dinosaur fossils from the Jurassic period.

These dinosaur bones were found in a quarry in Wyoming, USA between 2007 and 2010 and are considered extremely rare as the fossils are about 80% complete.

They consist of two adults and one baby diplodocid sauropod dinosaurs that were discovered together.

Among the biggest animals to walk on this planet some 150 million years ago, they have been christened the following names: The adult dinosaurs measuring 24m and 27m respectively, have been nicknamed Apollo and Prince, while the baby dinosaur is 12m long -- and called Twinky.

The three long-necked dinosaurs will be the centrepiece of the new museum’s gallery.

The largest of the trio will arrive by 2014.

What's so exciting about having our very own natural history museum?

Because we never had one before. And because history in Singapore extended way before Sir Stamford Raffles' arrival in 1819.

We're talking about tracing the roots of Man, looking back to the primordial swamp.

Feeling cultured already just thinking about it.

All photos taken from NUS News.