Amazing Underwater Museum Wows Tourists on its Majestic Beauty!
The 14 meters beneath the sea, the world's first underwater sculpture museum featuring more than 300 sculptures opened to the public this week. Almost three years in the making, Museo Atlántico, will open off the coast of Lanzarote on February 25th, 2016, in the Canary Islands, Spain.
The project consists of 12 installations and more than 300 life-size human figures, created by British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, 12 to 14 metres under water. This work, called Portal, forms part of an underwater botanical garden.
Museo Atlantico aims to draw attention to some of the world's most relevant problems: forced migrations, global warming and climate change, and conservation of natural resources. It can be accessed by scuba divers (€12pp) and snorkellers (€8pp) with departures from the Marina Rubicón port located in the south of the island.
The mirror reflects the moving surface of the ocean and is elevated on a series of supports which contain small compartments and “living stations” designed to attract octopus, sea urchins and juvenile fish.
Jason deCaires Taylor was born in 1974. He graduated from the London Institute of Arts with a BA Honours in Sculpture and became a fully qualified diving instructor and underwater naturalist. In 2006, Taylor created the world’s first underwater sculpture park off the west coast of Grenada in the West Indies. The installation os one of the Top 25 Wonders of the World by National Geographic.
The new installations include 35 figures walking towards a gateway in a 30-metre-long, 100-tonne wall. The work, called Crossing the Rubicon, is ‘intended to be a monument to absurdity, a dysfunctional barrier in the middle of a vast fluid, three-dimensional space, which can be bypassed in any direction,’ says deCaires Taylor.
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