The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
After landing in Nice thanks to one of the many direct Air Corsica flights made all the year-round from Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi and Figari - you can visit the Principality of Monaco in no time at all, to visit its famous oceanographic museum.
Clinging to the cliff, at the top of the "Rocher", the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco is an authentic "Palace of the Sea" which contains, as the guardian of “the history of the oceans” - thousands of residents of all sizes and in many colors.
Dedicated to all marine sciences, this world-renowned museum features priceless collections of marine wildlife. Its famous aquarium consisting of 90 ponds allows the rarest species of fish with extravagant shapes and colors - to evolve naturally and it offers a magnificent spectacle. "The Shark Lagoon", the latest achievement implemented by the museum - a giant basin of 450 m3, including the diversity and extraordinary colors of the coral reef - and the living beings that inhabit it.
The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco offers a fantastic family trip at twenty thousand leagues under the sea where young and old can follow small fishes or large predators walking through multicolored coral reefs. To carry out its mission, this great temple of the oceans also presents magnificent collections of specimens living or preserved for centuries.
The different aquariums of the Oceanographic museum of Mocano:
The museum consists of 90 ponds that allow to see 6000 species of fishes and invertebrates in their living natural environment. It consists of three major parts:
The Mediterranean: 300 species presented in their reconstructed and fully alive environment.
The tropical zone: Around a huge main aquarium of 450,000 liters, many basins present the life of tropical fish in living multicolored coral reefs.
The shark lagoon: behind a 30cm-thick glass, an impressive face-to-face with an ecosystem living in 400,000 litres of seawater at a depth of six metres! Large predators swim deep, rays spread their wings in the wake of turtles or angelfish, mysterious moray eels emerge from the reef - while on the other side, the lagoon is home to the smallest specimens in a tropical universe with improbable colors!
Finally, the museum has a section "Natural History" where are preserved the giant skeletons of rare specimens from the greatest marine expeditions of recent centuries.
This is a great cultural attraction to discover throughout the year thanks to Air Corsica's direct flights - between Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari and Nice.
