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About 47 miles away
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Oceanographic Museum
A grand palace of the sea on the edge of a cliff, with an aquarium of sharks and coral reefs and a rooftop terrace.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Avenue Saint-Martin, 98000 MonacoDirections
- Getting There
- On the Rock, a 5-minute walk from the palace.
Why Go
Prince Albert I, a pioneering oceanographer, opened the museum in 1910, its walls rising sheer from the sea. Jacques Cousteau directed it for three decades. Below the halls of whale skeletons and ship models, the aquarium holds thousands of fish, a shark lagoon and Mediterranean and tropical reefs.
Nearby in Monte Carlo
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