Photo courtesy of MUSA/Jason deCaires Taylor/The Stills
A deep dive into art
The Underwater Museum of Art (MUSA), just off the coast of Cancun, is a museum unlike any other. It’s made up of over 500 life-sized sculptural installations – all sitting on the bottom of the ocean and accessed only by scuba diving, snorkeling or adventuring via glass bottom boat.
Visitors will enjoy scenes like the one pictured here, a sculpture entitled “Anthropocene” that has become a home for various sea life.
Photo courtesy of MUSA/Jason deCaires Taylor/The Stills
The ultimate win-win
The bewitching MUSA is more than an art museum; it’s an act of conservation. Drawing visitors away from Cancun’s natural reefs, which are suffering due to heavy tourism, MUSA serves as an alternative attraction. Even better, the sculptures are all attached to the ocean floor and composed of materials that encourage coral reef formation, creating new places for sea life to flourish.
Photo courtesy of MUSA/Jason deCaires Taylor/The Stills
Sunken galleries
The museum is divided into three galleries: Manchones, Punta Nizuc and Punta Sam. Punta Nizuc is 4 meters deep and is best viewed via snorkeling or from the comfort of a glass bottom boat….
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