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1910
Prince Albert I opened it in 1910 for the world's oceanographers
The Oceanographic Museum was inaugurated in 1910 by Prince Albert I, who invited not just officials and celebrities but also the world-leading oceanographers of the day. Jacques-Yves Cousteau was its director from 1957 to 1988.
The cliff
It took eleven years and 100,000 tons of stone to build on the cliff
The museum is in the Baroque Revival style, with a facade facing the sea that towers over the cliff face to a height of 85 metres. It took eleven years to build, using 100,000 tons of stone from La Turbie. The names of twenty research vessels are inscribed in the frieze.
A yacht lab
A yacht's laboratory led to a Nobel Prize
On the first floor, A Sailor's Career includes the laboratory from L'Hirondelle, the first of Prince Albert's research yachts. Observations made there led to an understanding of anaphylaxis, for which Dr Charles Richet received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1913.
The aquarium
The basement aquarium shows four thousand species of fish
An aquarium in the basement presents a wide array of flora and fauna: four thousand species of fish and over 200 families of invertebrates. It also presents Mediterranean and tropical marine ecosystems.
Day 4, afternoon
It comes after Port Hercule. Then Place du Casino.
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