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    The MUSA (Museo Subacuático de Arte) is an underwater museum located off the coast of Cancún, Mexico consisting of over 500 life-size sculptures created by artist Jason deCaires Taylor. The sculptures are made of materials that promote coral growth to create an artificial reef structure for marine life. With over 420 square meters and weighing over 200 tons, the sculptures relieve pressure on natural reefs by attracting visitors away from them. One of the museum's celebrated works, The Silent Evolution, includes 420 statues depicting local community members and how they relate to their environment, with coral now growing on the sculptures. The museum is divided into two galleries at different depths to be accessible to both divers

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    The MUSA (Museo Subacuático de Arte) is an underwater museum located off the coast of Cancún, Mexico consisting of over 500 life-size sculptures created by artist Jason deCaires Taylor. The sculptures are made of materials that promote coral growth to create an artificial reef structure for marine life. With over 420 square meters and weighing over 200 tons, the sculptures relieve pressure on natural reefs by attracting visitors away from them. One of the museum's celebrated works, The Silent Evolution, includes 420 statues depicting local community members and how they relate to their environment, with coral now growing on the sculptures. The museum is divided into two galleries at different depths to be accessible to both divers

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    The MUSA (Museo Subacuático de Arte) is an underwater museum located off the coast of Cancún, Mexico consisting of over 500 life-size sculptures created by artist Jason deCaires Taylor. The sculptures are made of materials that promote coral growth to create an artificial reef structure for marine life. With over 420 square meters and weighing over 200 tons, the sculptures relieve pressure on natural reefs by attracting visitors away from them. One of the museum's celebrated works, The Silent Evolution, includes 420 statues depicting local community members and how they relate to their environment, with coral now growing on the sculptures. The museum is divided into two galleries at different depths to be accessible to both divers

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    The MUSA (Museo Subacuático de Arte) is an underwater museum located off the coast of Cancún, Mexico consisting of over 500 life-size sculptures created by artist Jason deCaires Taylor. The sculptures are made of materials that promote coral growth to create an artificial reef structure for marine life. With over 420 square meters and weighing over 200 tons, the sculptures relieve pressure on natural reefs by attracting visitors away from them. One of the museum's celebrated works, The Silent Evolution, includes 420 statues depicting local community members and how they relate to their environment, with coral now growing on the sculptures. The museum is divided into two galleries at different depths to be accessible to both divers

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    Museo Subacutico de Arte - Cancn, Mexico

    In 2009 a monumental underwater museum called MUSA (Museo


    Subacutico de Arte) was formed in the waters surrounding Cancn, Isla
    Mujeres and Punta Nizuc. The project founded by Jaime Gonzalez Cano of The
    National Marine Park, Roberto Diaz of The Cancun Nautical Association and
    Jason deCaires Taylor consists of over 500 permanent life-size sculptures
    created by Taylor and is one of the largest and most ambitious underwater
    artificial art attractions in the world.

    The Museum aiming to demonstrate the interaction between art and


    environmental science forms a complex reef structure for marine life to
    colonise, inhabit and increase biomass on a grand scale. Each of the sculptures
    is made from specialized materials used to promote coral life, with the total
    installations occupying an area of over 420sq metres of barren seabed and
    weighing over 200 tons. The Cancun Marine Park is one of the most visited
    stretches of water in the world with over 750,000 visitors each year, placing
    immense pressure on its resources. The location of the sculptures promotes the
    recovery of the natural reefs at it relieves pressure on them by drawing visitors
    away.

    Celebrated works in the museum include The Silent Evolution, which


    consists of 420 sculptures. The statues in this work show how some humans
    see their surrounding and embrace them while others hide their faces. Each
    statue was made to resemble members of a local fishing community where
    Taylor lives. Each statue has its own personality and features. Taylor made sure
    every detail from the hair to the clothes of the statues was perfect. They
    include a little girl with a faint smile on her face looking up to the surface; six
    businessmen with their heads in the sand, not paying attention to their
    surroundings; and even a man behind a desk with his dog lying him, but
    looking tired and uninvolved in the environment. Some corals have been
    planted on and near the initial sculptures. The Silent Evolution is a two-part art
    installation: the underwater sculptures themselves are the first part, while the
    second is how nature will transform them as coral grows and a new reef forms.
    The museum is divided into two galleries called Salon Manchones and Salon
    Nizuc. The first is eight meters deep and suitable for both divers and snorkelers
    and the second four meters deep and only permitted for snorkeling.

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