MUSEO ATLANTICO
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Museo Atlántico is known as the largest underwater museum in Europe. The museum has three hundred sculptures spread over an area of 2500 m2. This so-called Museo Atlantico is popular with divers and snorkelers, but you can also view it from a glass bottom boat. Furthermore, the sculptures serve as an artificial reef for marine animals on the mostly barren sandy bottom. The project was carried out by British sculptor, Jason deCaires Taylor.
Particulars
Enter Museo Atlántico from the boat. The statues are placed in a triangle and are all works of art. They stand out beautifully on the sandy bottom. The sandy bottom of Las Coloradas ends in a long rock full of crevices, cracks and caves and teems with marine life. You'll see moray eels, cleaner shrimps, squids, lobsters and much more.
Warnings
Take the rules of Museo Atlántico into account. Don't touch the sculptures and statues.
MUSEO ATLANTICO Features
- Nicknames
- Las Coloradas
- Address
- Las Coloradas, Lanzarote
- Parking
- At boat charter
- Distance
- 20 min.
- Suitable for
- All levels, snorkeling
- Permit
- N.v.t. / NA
- Access
- Restricted access
- Facilities
- Boat dive facilities
- Water
- Salt
- Kind of dive
- Boat dive
- Current
- Limited
- Visibility
- 10 - 20 m.
- Average visibility
- 15 m.
- Depth
- 15 m.
- Bottom
- zand
- Life
- Squid, cleaner shrimp, moray, stingray, sea bass, anemone
- Other recreation
- None