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Oceanographic Museum, Monaco

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Oceanographic Museum, Monaco
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A grand museum of marine science built on a cliff above the Mediterranean in 1910 by Prince Albert I, once directed by Jacques Cousteau, with an aquarium of Mediterranean and tropical sea life, a shark lagoon and a turtle sanctuary.


The rooftop terrace gives views along the Riviera to Italy. It's on the Rock, a short walk from the palace.

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