by Dai_Vu | May 20, 2025 | The exhibition halls
On the third and top floor of Palazzo Grassi, the central hall houses a selection of about 350 specimens from the Historical Collection of Trieste and Rovinj, a collection of valuable Adriatic marine animals with an adventurous history. Fish, sharks, rays, mollusks,...
by Dai_Vu | May 20, 2025 | The exhibition halls
This room focuses on several interactive multimedia installations that provide insight into the different sensory channels that marine animals use to understand what the world around them looks like. In addition to the senses that we also possess-smell, sight, touch,...
by Dai_Vu | May 20, 2025 | The exhibition halls
How and what do marine organisms eat? What food relationships are formed among different animals and plants? What is a trophic network? Understanding how nourishment and energy pass from one organism to another is a key piece to understanding at least some of the...
by Dai_Vu | May 20, 2025 | The exhibition halls
In this room you can sit and watch some films, biology and ecology give way to the fishing traditions and culture of an area, the Chioggio area, which has derived its raison d’être from its relationship with the sea. How has the way of “going to sea” changed in...
by Dai_Vu | May 20, 2025 | The exhibition halls
The room is dedicated to fishing traditions, an inescapable voice in the history and culture of Chioggia, a city that has always been linked to the sea and the lagoon. The consumption of seafood is steadily increasing but the history of who harvests them, how they...
by Dai_Vu | May 20, 2025 | The exhibition halls
The museum exhibition begins on the second floor of Palazzo Grassi with the Shark Room. Welcoming us is Olivia, a female basking shark, from one of the largest fish in the world. The specimen on display is about eight meters long and was accidentally caught off the...
