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Have you ever found yourself walk through innumerable halls and corridors of a museum, looked at beautiful sculptures and thought - well it's beautiful, but I would like it to be under the water? If you have, that I have good news for you. A magnificent submarine museum has just opened on the coast of Spanish Island, Lanzarote. Museo Atlantico is the first and, until now, the only underwater museum in Europe.

The museum opened its doors on the first March 2016 and so far includes six different installations at 12 to 15 meters below the surface of the water. The museum is fully funded by local government and offers a collection of sculptures from the British artist Jason Decaders Taylor.

An installation - "Rubicon" - includes sculptures of 35 people, all models the inhabitants of Lanzarote. All sculptures face the same directions and look like they walk to the door. The Rubicon is supposed to represent climate change.

Another installation, "the lamppedusa raft" is a reference to a romantic painting of the French artist Théodore Géricault, called "The Raft de Medusa". The sculpture features a poured boat with many people on board. This facility is supposed to describe the realities of the recent refugee crisis. Jason Decaders Taylor has even commented on the sense of sculpture in aFacebook Post. "Draw parallels between the abandonment of sailors in his sinking scene and the current refugee crisis, the work is not conceived as a tribute or a memorial on the many lives lost, but a separate reminder of the collective responsibility of Our global community, "he said.

"Los Jolateros" is another installation in the Museo Atlantico. It has sculptures of children in small boats. A strange show to see.

There is also an installation of half-human hybrid sculptures, half plants. "Hybrid / biological sculptures are based on the flores and fauna of the Canary Islands" - Decares Taylor wrote in aFacebook Post.

Museo Atlantico Lanzarote is not over yet. More sculptures still have to be made and more facilities must be flowing at the bottom of the sea. When everything is done, this underwater museum will have 10 separate installations, composed of more than 300 individual sculptures. All sculptures consist of non-toxic and harmless materials the environment. In fact, all facilities are supposed to serve as an artificial reef and encourage marine life to flourish in this area.


In a way, Museo Atlantico Lanzarote will be a museum in constant evolution. The way the sculptures and facilities are not going to stay the same. Over the years, they will be covered by all kinds of algae and algae and became a house for many marine life specimens.
To see behind the scenes of how the museum was created, look at this video: