That’s Strange: Cancun Underwater Museum - A Museum you’ve to Swim Through

Like you, I hate museums too. Visiting a museum is usually the last thing on my mind. While some call it text-bookish, some feel walking inside a museum is just too banal an experience for them. But this is different. Imagine if you were to swim through the deep, turquoise waters of the Mexican Caribbean and enter a museum filled with beautiful corals and sculptures…

Now that is something I bet you’ve never heard of. Well, let me introduce you to an unusual, underwater museum, which boasts of housing more than 400 sculptures (really!). Isn’t that strange?

 

Sculptures In The Sea

Located on the coast of Isla Mujeres in Mexico, Cancun Underwater Museum attracts more than 7,50,000 tourists every year. Now, that’s a huge number of visitors, uh... divers! The sculptures here have been carved impeccably by famous artist Jason de Caires Taylor who is not just a brilliant sculptor but also a conservationist, an underwater photographer and a scuba diving instructor. He has created many such marvels before, some of which can also be seen at the underwater sculptor park in Molinere Bay, Grenada. But the one at Cancun continues to be the world’s largest underwater museum with plenty of intricate sculptures that are exquisitely placed underwater. In collaboration with National Marine Park Authorities, the Cancun Nautical Association and Isla Mujeres Nautical Association initiated this project with Jason, the artist to preserve the natural corals and local ecosystem.

 

These life-size figures have been constructed from a special material - pH-neutral clay, which is marine friendly. The strangest part of these figures is that their overall appearance will change with time as they have been designed in a manner where artificial reefs and corals can grow on them. And this further helps in preserving the natural reefs and corals as visitors come to experience the same adventure here.

Last Supper Goes Down Under

Displaying a bizarre collection of statues that have multiple inspirations ranging from historical events to modern and contemporary works of art; these sculptures are placed deep inside the sea measuring 9 to 20 feet in depth. Some of the most prominent sculptures are the Last Supper and The Silent Revolution (depicting the transformation of the Mayan Age). Do not miss the artistic figure of the Phoenix - a kinetic structure of a woman with wings.

Peek Into The Bizarre 

In case you are not a diver, you can snorkel in the shallow waters or take a ride in a glass-bottom boat and check out the bizarre underwater world, one that you’ve surely never seen before. While you decide, I’m all set to explore the hidden treasure at Cancun…