The world's first underwater museum of sculptures Subaquatic Sculpture Museum was opened in Mexico at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. The idea of organizing an underwater museum has a noble mission - its purpose to divert tourists from the Caribbean coral reefs, which continue to erode, not without the participation of tourists during underwater excursions break off pieces of coral as a souvenir. Since abandon tourist country living on the huge profits the tourism industry can not, then the Mexican government decided to offer them an alternative to artificial coral reef - underwater sculpture.
All of the sculptures, but they in a museum under the water now, more than 200, made of concrete, steel and wire and have a neutral pH, so that no harm to the ecosystem Caribbean, they will not inflict. The authorities plan to bring to the underwater wonder of more than 750.000 visitors a year.
Author sculptures British artist Jason de Caires Taylor. Subject underwater exposition - the people of Grenada, its culture, history and life. Perhaps the most unusual sculptures in an underwater museum is The Lost Correspondent, reports that sits at the table with a typewriter in the water.
Original in content and execution track Vicissitudes - sculptures of children aged 10 to 14 years in the life-size, which form a circle - symbolizing the circle of life.
According to the artist Taylor, to work with sculptures to be displayed in a museum under the water but not in the room with white walls, very different. Here we must take into account a lot of details: the light that is always changing, and what water does sculpture bigger and bigger and closer, and that over time they change their color.
But underwater museum is totally different from the traditional museum. He is mysterious and amazing. How a lost civilization, which engulfed the sea.