Exhibition "Marine Kaleidoscope"

About exhibition

Museum visitors are immersed in the mysterious world of marine creatures. Here you can see corals of fairytale beauty, shells of rare mollusks — pearl oysters, porcelain shells and venomous cone snails. Starfish, sea urchins, lobsters, turtles and sharks — this diversity adorns the exhibition. Visitors learn the history of maritime discoveries and are introduced to the world of underwater archaeology. Among the marine treasures a special place is occupied by Strombus gigas (the queen conch) — a symbol of the Caribbean basin. Cowries, or Cypraeidae, are called the gems of the deep. The Chinese were the first to use them as money. Here you can encounter predatory mollusks of the Conidae family, as well as magnificent Haliotis (abalone), or "sea ears", with their blue-green pearly sheen. One cannot but notice murexes with their ornate shells and scallops dyed in every color of the rainbow. A particular highlight is Tridacna — the mollusk with the largest shell in the world. Unique exhibits of the exhibition include a lobster (Voiskovoy Museum collection, 1888) and the remains of a striped whale skeleton (Voiskovoy Museum collection, 1880). A prominent part of the collection is devoted to the history of seafaring and the Age of Discovery, scientific research of the world's oceans and their inhabitants, and the human use of marine resources.