Cancun's Mindblowing Underwater Museo Subaquatico de Arte Is Open to Visitors Jaunted
go to original August 5, 2014

Jason deCaires Taylor and Museo Subaquatico de Arte (Jason Taylor)

In 2009, we told you about a neat little conservation scheme that Mexico had brainstormed to preserve the country's coral reefs. The reefs around Cancun were getting overrun by tourists, and so the government wanted to give those tourists something different but still shiny to play with instead. In this case the folks in charge of Mexico travel decided to build the world's largest underwater museum, and to fill it with precious sculptures. It would give divers a brand new thing to explore.

Fast forward half a decade, and CNN just did a full-blown photo spread on the now-completed Museo Subacuático de Arte. The museum's collection is filled with among other things sculptures by British artist Jason deCaires Taylor.

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