Underwater Museum in Mexico

VISIT to the museum to be one alternative when traveling to a country or city. Museums generally keeps a history and culture unique to the country in which he stood.

However, the museum this one different from the museum in general. His name is Ikrean. It lies not in the mainland, but under the sea.

Underwater museum is precisely located in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. This museum was built in 2009, contains statues carved in human form with a size similar to the original. These statues were carved by Jaosn deCaires Taylor showing Mayan community life. This museum aims to show the interaction between art and science-based environment.

Although located in between the coral reef habitat of many species of fish, but the existence of this museum will not damage and disrupt the surrounding environment. This is because every statue in the museum is made ​​of special material used for support of coral life. This museum has an area of ​​420 square meters on the seabed and the total weight of all the statues more than 180 tons.

Cancun underwater museum is visited by 750 thousand tourists every year. To visit it, tourists certainly should be equipped with scuba gear and a lot of help guides are available at travel agencies around Cancun.

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