Oceanographic Museum

The Oceanographic Museum is a museum of sea life sciences in Monaco-Ville, Monaco. It is home to the Mediterranean Science Commission. This building is a piece of the Oceanographic Institute which is focused on sharing its learning of the seas. The Oceanographic Museum was initiated in 1910 by Monaco's pioneer reformer; Prince Albert I. Jacques-Yves Cousteau was executive from 1957 to 1988. The Museum praised its centennial in March 2010, after broad remodels.

The museum is home to displays and accumulations of different types of ocean fauna starfish, seahorses, turtles, jellyfish, crabs, lobsters, beams, sharks, ocean urchins, ocean cucumbers, eels, cuttlefish and so on. The museum's property likewise incorporate an incredible assortment of ocean related items, including model boats, ocean creature skeletons, devices, weapons and so forth, and in addition a gathering of material culture and custom articles produced using, or coordinating materials, for example, pearls, molluscs and nacre.

An aquarium in the storm cellar of the museum introduces a wide cluster of verdure. Four thousand types of fish and more than 200 groups of spineless creatures can be seen. The aquarium likewise includes an introduction of Mediterranean and tropical marine biological systems. Various specialists showed their works of art in the museum, for example, Damien Hirst and Philippe Pasqua.