The Musée Océanographique was founded in 1889 by Prince Albert I, the navigator-prince, and inaugurated in 1910 after some eleven years of building. Paul Delefortrie drew the plans; the Neo-Baroque façade rises more than 85 metres from the sea up the cliff of the Rock, about a hundred metres long, in white La Turbie stone, with allegorical groups by Gustave Dussart unveiled in 1903. Albert founded the Institut Océanographique, which runs it, in 1906.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau directed the museum from 1957 to 1988. Its aquariums hold some 350 species of fish in about a hundred tanks, around a shark lagoon opened in 2001; since 2010 the ground floor has shown contemporary art, Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn among the artists, and the roof terrace looks out over the coast.
The building
Avenue Saint-Martin, Monaco-Ville, Monaco – facts from the open sources, each with its source.
Facts
- Address
- Avenue Saint-Martin
- Use
- MuseumOpenStreetMap
- Built
- inaugurated 1910 (founded 1889)Metro Mode
- Architect
- Paul DelefortrieOpenStreetMap / Wikidata
- Floors
- 2OpenStreetMap building:levels
- Height
- 7 mfrom the storeys in OpenStreetMap (3.1 m a floor)
- Footprint
- 2,139 m²OpenStreetMap
- Style
- Neo-BaroqueMetro Mode
- Built as
- Museum of oceanography and aquariumMetro Mode
- Commissioned by
- Prince Albert IMetro Mode
- Quartier
- Monaco-Ville
Getting there
- Nearest bus stop
- Monaco-Ville le Rocherline 1, line 2, line 5, line 22, line N2 · 2 min on foot
- Beach
- Plage du Solarium6 min on foot
- Port
- port de Fontvieille7 min on foot
- From the Casino
- 17 min on footestimate, with the stairs and lifts
- From the Palais
- 8 min on footestimate, with the stairs and lifts
On the map
Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, its outline lit, on Avenue Saint-Martin.
Building outlines and heights © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
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Sources
Building outline, height, floors, use and address: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0.
Buses: Compagnie des Autobus de Monaco GTFS (Licence Ouverte 2.0).
Wikipédia (fr) : Musée océanographique de Monaco
Mon Service Public (gouv.mc): Museums
Photo: Kirk Fisher/Adobe Stock
Official website musee.oceano.org