Educational activities help specialized audiences, like school children, to appreciate the exhibitions better.
Special events, games or documents are designed by the educational service, together with outside organizations. They provide this little extra necessary to take full advantage of the Aquarium and the other rooms. However, one should never forget what a dream it is to discover the Oceanographic Museum!
Outside the institution, educational activities are set up in different forms: conferences, exhibitions, to make people aware of the underwater world.
The Museum has always welcomed important scientists. Since its creation in 1960, the Centre Scientifique de Monaco has had its laboratories here.
At present, the Museum houses the Observatoire Océanologique Européen (OOE) created in 1990 within the Centre Scientifique de Monaco. The purpose of its research is to prevent ecological disasters and to restore marine ecosystems.
For the first time, the culture of reef-building corals was mastered on a large scale inside closed-circuit aquaria. The laboratory coral (mini and micro-corals) serve as biological models to study the mechanisms of calcification and the photosynthesis of their symbiotic algae called zooxanthilae.
The operation of coral ecosystems is studied from models of live reefs kept in aquaria. There researches are very important, because coral reefs, the marine equivalent of forests, play a role in maintaining the balance of the planet.
Laboratory work is complemented by experiments done on location during missions carried out in the Red Sea or in the Pacific and Indian oceans.
But the OOE is also interested in the ecology and ecophysiology of some organisms, like the red coral or the caulerpa, which are important for the balance of the Mediterranean coastal environments.
Locals hypothesize that the legacy of Italian blood and culture in Cologne, colonized by the Romans more than 1500 years ago, makes the people more jovial and lighthearted. Cologne is the largest city on the Rhine.
Kolsch is not only the dialect spoken here but, also the name of their own top-fermented beer. There are more than 4,000 pubs, restaurant's and brewery taverns in Cologne.
Unlike many of the world's large cities, Cologne, with a population of over a million, gets better every day, there are more things to do and see, more new and innovative buildings... more
Travel is an opportunity to learn, whether geography, languages, history or other subjects.
Cologne is situated on the beautiful Rhine River.