Ozeaneum - Window on the oceans and seas

The Ozeaneum opened its doors to the public on Saturday July 12th, and is expected to attract some 20,000 visitors to the Baltic town of Stralsund during its first weekend in operation. The OZEANEUM, an additional museum construction of the German Oceanographic Museum, combines tradition with modern architecture in Stralsund,
a World Heritage Site in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.

With aquariums and exhibitions spread over some 8,700 square metres of exhibition space, visitors are treated to an underwater journey through the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Northern Atlantic, right up into the Arctic Ocean.

Unknown fish, coral and other marine life are exhibited in no less than 39 different aquariums. The journey begins with a model of Stralsund harbour which is used as the backdrop to show specimens of local fish like Rudd and Perch. Visitors are then guided to the deep-sea life in the North Atlantic aquarium and on to the Greenland basin and the fish world below the ice sheets.