Fisheries- and Maritime Museum, Esbjerg, Southern Denmark, Denmark
The Fisheries and Maritime Museum in Esbjerg, Denmark, (built 1966-1968) is uniquely located by the Wadden Sea – an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea.
Alongside 193 natural sites worldwide the Wadden Sea is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List – sites assessed to be so valuable to the world that they should be preserved for posterity.
In the course of the last 20 years, C.F. Møller has been in charge of four different expansions of the Fisheries and Maritime Museum – the two most recent projects putting authentic Wadden Sea wildlife and nature on display for museum visitors.
Most recently, the Wadden Sea Pavilion (2014): A large aviary for wadden sea marine flora and fauna, with glazed pools which make it possible to see the typical wadden sea birds such as eider, shelduck, wigeon and avocets, both above and below water. The other, the museum sealarium, allows visitors to watch the wadden sea seals in their natural element through big underwater windows.
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