Oceanographic Museum

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The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco (French: Musée et de Monaco océanographique Institute ) is a 1889 by Prince Albert I, founded Monegasque Museum and Institute of Oceanography.

Location

The Oceanographic Museum is located on a cliff into the Mediterranean ranging in Monaco -Ville. It was in the midst of a representative park built directly on the grounds of the Palais de Monaco, the residence of the Prince of Monaco joins. In the park, which is characterized by many exotic plants, is located in close proximity to the Museum a monument to the founder, the Prince Albert I meereskundlich interested.

History

Prince Albert I, known as prince navigateur, 1899 was the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco -Ville on a slope build. He had brought from his expeditions various oceanographic objects as memory and research pieces to Monaco and now harbored the desire to present this to the citizens in an elegant setting. These include the perceived as sensational discovery of a Lepidoteuthis grimaldii was (1895 during a research trip from the vomit of a harpooned sperm whale rescued ) the designation of which was done by his family Grimaldi. He also expressed the view that a museum of oceanography would be as it were a museum of local history in the coastal town of Monaco, which could illustrate the domestic maritime flora and fauna.

It was funded by the Fondation Albert Ier, whose assets resulted from the donations of Prince Albert and plummeted as a result of monetary erosion to a minimum. The foundation, which is since 1906 owner of the museum, is incorporated in France, hence the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco is formally a queen. However, the reigning Prince of Monaco is always under the statutes of the Foundation is also chairman of the Fondation Albert Ier.

At the opening of the imposing building, which includes both an ambassador of the French Republic, and of his friend, the German Empire ( Albert I and Kaiser Wilhelm II was not least a good friend because of their maritime interests ) were present, proclaimed Prince Albert I:

In 1906, the Oceanographic Institute under its first director, Louis Joubin, a french zoologist for maritine molluscs and describer of Lepidoteuthis grimaldii, his research on.

In 1957, Jacques -Yves Cousteau director of the museum. Under his care the museum, particularly the research area of the Institute reached a new bloom. Today, the Oceanographic Museum has modern aquariums and financed almost entirely on tourism itself

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco 2002 became an official partner organization of the Convention for the protection of whales of the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and the adjacent Atlantic zones ( ACCOBAMS ).

In 2006, Prince Albert II named after him Foundation ( Fondation Albert II de Monaco ) for the protection and conservation of nature in the Arctic. This he wants to continue the work of his namesake and ancestor.

A fire fish in an aquarium of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

An aquarium in Monaco Oceanographic Museum