The grandeur of the oceans in the heart of Madrid

Based on the documentary 'Oceans’ by Jacques Perrin, is being exhibited at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid 'Océanos. The last wild territory, an exhibition that uses a fundamentally audiovisual exhibition format.

The National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid (MNCN-CSIC) is approaching with the exhibition Oceans. The last wild territory the mysteries of the deep sea to the heart of the capital.

This project presents the visitor with a tour of the richness of the oceans based on the material from the documentary Oceans, the largest filmed testimony on the seabed ever made. The filming, directed by Oscar winner Jacques Perrin (Wind Nomads, The Choir Boys) together with Jacques Cluzaud, required a total of 7 years of work, 75 expeditions in which more than 500 personas. They were obtained 480 hours of material with enormous informative and scientific value, recording images of more than 200 marine species from the five continents. Those images, totally unprecedented and of great beauty, They now constitute the audiovisual support of the exhibition.

After passing through Murcia, Gijon, Alicante and Chile (Santiago, Conception, The Cerrillos, Iquique and La Serena), The exhibition now arrives in Madrid with a great audiovisual display.

In this experience, with great scientific value, the public can immerse themselves through interactive screens, 3D experiences or a large curved surface that produces an immersive effect. For the little ones, it also has a play area where they can make sand sculptures or do puzzles..

The visitor enters the exhibition through a video circuit where eleven teams Optoma (1080 3000M) project images from 4K Zenopllige Z11Pro players onto suspended screens.

The interactive area is made up of a dozen monitors LG of 42 inches (LB5610) equipped with tactile surfaces that allow obtaining information about various aspects of the marine environment.

On the other hand, through a system of passive glasses and three LG screens of 55 inches (UH625V), a holographic 3D production allows the visitor to dive into the depths. The projection reproduces some of the images that the director of photography specialized in underwater shots Roberto Rinaldi captured for the film Oceans.

But perhaps one of the areas that most impresses the visitor is a large 12-inch curved screen.×6,65 metros (260 square meters). Thanks to nine projectors Sony VPL-FHZ55 with lenses 1,39 y 0,8, to a Watch Max system Dataton and an audio system from Beringer and Element, Oceanus. The last wild territory offers stunning scenes with an immersive effect.

The exhibition is completed with numerous life-size replicas where we can even find a great white shark. 6,5 metros.

Without physical borders

The oceans, formed ago 4.000 millions of years, occupy the 70% of the Earth and are home to more than a million animal species, of which only one is known 20%. Knowledge and awareness are the best messages to try to maintain species diversity, And what better way than to become aware of something than by contemplating its beauty with unparalleled images?.

“We know the surface of the Moon better than the seabed; it's not a joke. We are depleting the ocean's resources in an irresponsible and absurd way, and we risk producing irreversible changes in this environment that fills three quarters of the Earth”, says the curator of the exhibition, Oscar Vega..

Vega maintains that the ocean is the last territory on Earth, that still has no physical borders, in which animals can move as others did on the continents, It is “the last wild territory”

The sample, which is supported by the Higher Center for Scientific Research and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, is organized by World Exhibitions and can be visited at the headquarters of the National Museum of Natural Sciences until 25 November.