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The museum can be visited any day between 10:00 am and 16:00 pm, through the network of accredited centres that manage the process; bookings, equipment rental services and visits. This network is available at:

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Two types of visits:1. Diving2. Snorkel and Free-diving

Information

Oficina del Museo Atlánticomuseoatlantico@centrosturisticos.com+34 928 517 388

TIME

Mo-Fr 9:00 - 17:00 h

LanzaroteCanary Islands

General Info

The creation of the monumental Atlantic Mu-seum project by artist Jason deCaires Taylor aspires to create a strong visual dialogue be-tween art and nature. Designed with a con-servationist approach to generate an artificial reef on a large scale, since its first installations in 2016, it has already achieved a considera-ble increase in the rates of species generation and abundance, being currently frequented by angel sharks, barracuda banks, sardines, octo-puses, sea sponges, and the occasional butter-fly ray.

The museum, which occupies an area of 50 x 50 meters of sandy seabed devoid of life is built with environmentally friendly neutral pH mate-rials, and all the pieces have been designed to adapt to endemic marine life. The museum be-gins its journey in an entrance, and ends in an exit. It is formed by ten facilities that aspire to reflect the contemporaneity, making us ques-tion the use of natural resources.

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5. Crossing Rubicon. This work consists of a group of 35 figures walking towards a wall and a door under the sea, a bound-ary between two realities and a portal to the Atlantic Ocean. It is a monument to the absurd, a dysfunctional barrier in the midst of a vast fluid, a three-di-mensional space that can be surpassed in any direction.

8. Deregulated. Deregulated is a playground in which suited business men, alien to the nat-ural world, play on a swing and two rockers.

9. Photo op. Similar to the “selfie” couple , photographers pose a debate on the perma-nent recording of images in contemporary societies.

10. Human Twist. The last piece of the Atlantic Museum is a human gyre consisting of 200 life-size sculptures that create a great circular forma-tion. The position of the figures forms a reef inhabitable by marine spe-cies and constitutes an emotional farewell for the visitors at the end of the tour.

The visit to the Atlantic Museum may lead us to a better understanding of our relationship with the marine envi-ronment, and to appreciate the need to value and protect this fragile ecosystem to save our own lives.

6. Hybrid Garden. Merging nature and humanity while referring to the rich vegetation of Lanzarote. Sculp-tures half human, half cactus, make up an important part of the botanical garden.

6.1. “Drago” hybrid (A native tree from the Canary Islands).6.2. Nopal hybrids 6.3. Hybrid roots6.4. Tubular hybrid

7. Portal. In the portal a young female hybrid looks at a large quadrangular mirror that re-flects the surface of the ocean in motion. The mirror rises over a series of cactus-like struc-tures containing small com-partments, “living stations” de-signed to attract octopuses, sea urchins and fry.

Bahía de las ColoradasPlaya Blanca - YaizaSouth Coast of Lanzarote

2. Inmortal. Molded from a lo-cal fisherman on the island of La Graciosa on the north coast of Lanzarote, the sculpture is formed by a series of concrete sticks that make up a traditional funeral pyre.

3. The Raft of Lampedusa. A re-flection on the humanitarian crisis based on the painting of Geric·ult, which depicts a scene of the wreck of the French frigate Medu-sa on the coast of Mauritania and the abandonment suffered by the crew. An acknowledgement for those who have lost their lives on that journey.

4. Disconnected. A couple tak-ing a “selfie” places us in the use of new technologies and self-referentiality. This sculp-ture, located next to The Raft of Lampedusa, eludes to a tragic moment and turns it into an event “in the background”, wor-thy of being registered.

1. The “Jolateros”. A group of children in their boats made of brass, called “jolateros”, a refer-ence to this Lanzarote tradition and a metaphor of a possible future for our children, marked by the precariousness that would mean sailing on a thin sheet of brass.

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