Underwater museum inside the world’s most famous reef officially opens Aug 1
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Underwater museum within the earth's most famous reef officially opens Aug 1
The Museum of Underwater Fine art (MOUA) at the Great Bulwark Reef boasts a series of installations past renowned underwater sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor that highlight reef conservation, restoration, and education.
Coral Greenhouse at John Brewer Reef (Photo: The Museum of Underwater Art)
As the first and merely underwater art museum in the Southern hemisphere, the Museum of Underwater Art (MOUA) is billed as the innovative confluence of fine art, science, civilisation and conservation via a series of installations by the prominent underwater sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor.
Located in the central part of the world heritage-listed Cracking Bulwark Reef, off the coast of Townsville, it will officially launch on Aug 1, with tours commencing.
The showtime stage of MOUA has already been installed including Ocean Siren at The Strand and the Coral Greenhouse at John Brewer Reef in the Groovy Barrier Reef Marine Park, with further installations planned for Palm and Magnetic Islands.
The Ocean Siren sculpture, modelled after 12-year-old Takoda Johnson, is installed alongside Townsville's iconic jetty at The Strand with a vision to inspire reef and body of water conservation action and achieve positive environmental outcomes. The young girl is a member of the local Wulgurukaba people, i of two traditional owners of the local land.
The installation reacts to alive h2o temperature data from the Davies Reef weather station on the Great Barrier Reef and changes color in response to live variations in h2o temperature.
"She is a visual representation of current atmospheric condition underwater and a warning of potential stresses to the marine ecosystem," said underwater sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor. "Nosotros promise to advance didactics and offer opportunities for scientists, marine students and tourists to engage in action-based learning and to behave globally important research on coral reef restoration and new technology."
As for the Coral Greenhouse sculpture at John Brewer Reef, there are tours offering a earth-class swoop and snorkel experience which features a nine-metre stainless steel greenhouse structure and twenty reef guardian sculptures.
It'south the largest MOUA installation and the first-ever underwater edifice created past deCaires Taylor. Divers and snorkelers alike will be able to immerse themselves in a unique experience with the reef which strongly connects them to reef conservation and rehabilitation.
Said deCaires Taylor: "Weighing around 58 tonnes, the Coral Greenhouse has taken more than than nine months of fabrication time. It is the first piece I accept created which integrates floating elements into the design work; it's also the first time I've incorporated engineering science and coral propagation in the same piece."
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