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Thursday, March 05, 2009
Museums: Unique Underwater Museum for Egypt's Famed Ancient City
In the news this last week, The UNESCO backed giant underwater museum,
designed by French architect Jacques Rougerie, a specialist in water
based construction, is to be located on the site of Cleopatra’s Palace
in Alexandria and is set to break ground/water in 2010 and be completed
in 3 years.
( images above & below copyright Jaques Rougerie Architects)
Fiberglass tunnels will connect aboveground galleries, near the New Library of Alexandria, to the underwater viewing facility, where antiquities would be visible in their natural resting places at the site of Cleopatra's legendary and now sunken palace. This incredible museum will be the first genuine underwater museum, in the sense that visitors will not need diving gear to view the exhibits as, for example they do at Israel’s “underwater museum” at the ancient port of Caesarea, which is in effect more of a (fascinating and unique) dive site.
With funding yet to be secured and the not inconsiderable engineering obstacles – including low visibility and powerful currents around the tunnels- to be overcome this ambitious project has a long way to go, but the developers sound confident that such challenges will be met.
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