Description of the attraction
The Open Ocean Oceanography Center was created on the basis of the Poseidon Marine Club at the Minsk Youth Palace on the initiative of the director Alexei Alexandrovich Azarov.
This is a unique journey across the five oceans of the Earth. Each of the oceans represents its own hall. The exposition is addressed primarily to young visitors. However, it is good to come here with the whole family - everyone will find something interesting for themselves in the "Open Ocean".
On March 24, 2012, an exposition of the Belarusian Museum of the Submarine Fleet named after Karl Schilder, which tells about the fascinating and dangerous profession of a submariner, opened in the "Open Ocean". Karl Schilder, after whom the museum is named, was the first to develop an all-metal submarine in 1840 and laid the foundation for the submarine fleet. The exposition presents models of old and modern submarines, diving equipment and even a fragment of the sunken submarine "Kursk".
There are also live exhibits at the Oceanography Center. In special aquariums with sea water, the inhabitants of the deep sea are kept: bright fish of the tropical seas, dangerous but beautiful moray eels, crustaceans, molluscs, jellyfish, corals. There are also freshwater aquariums in which rare aquarium fish swim. Representatives of the reptile world live in terrariums specially created for them.
At the center of oceanography there is a library, circles for young sea romantics, a workshop, and an educational center. Here they organize interesting meetings with submariners, oceanographers, travelers, sailors and other interesting people.
