Marine Museum

Detail of the skeleton of the whale

One of the attractions you can’t miss in Margarita is the Marine Museum. This museum is in Boca de Río, in the peninsula of Macanao, very close to La Restinga.

Outdoor Aquarium

Sea Turtle

“Cat-Shark”

Just alter the entrance, to the right there are some outdoor aquariums that have cat-sharks and sea turtles close enough to get a good look at them. We recommend not to try touching the shark, because a shark is always a shark.

Aquariums room

Black Cachama

Cachúa
Cachúa

In a acclimatized and dark room, donated by the Fundación Polar, there are some illuminated aquariums with spectacular fishes of different colors. There are also some aquariums with corals.

Yellow Corocoro

Coral in the Aquarium

In the middle of the room there is a tank with sea stars and hedgehog of different varieties that can be touched.

Contact with hedgehog

Picking up a Sea Star

Sea Star and hedgehog

coral
Coral

Exhibition Rooms

Brain Coral

Reply of a fishing sailboat

Museum garden

After the entrance, on our left hand there is a construction of two floors, where the museum shop and several exhibition rooms are to be found. We’re welcomed by a reply of a sailboat and then a small yard where you can see other sailboats.

Mural
LThe species located at different depths

Mural
Exploring the bottom of the Sea

In the stairs that lead to the upper floor there are two huge walls. One of them shows the different species that can be found on different depths. The other one shows the different gear used to explore the bottom of the sea.

Model of Cubagua

One of the museum’s room

In the rooms of the museum there are several very interesting exhibitions. There are all kinds of rooms, from an audiovisual room where they project some sea documental movies to rooms where they explain the fishing activity. There are also some rooms where they show dissected sea species and a new exhibition with an interesting model of Cubagua Island and the first city of Venezuela, Nueva Cadiz of Cubagua, which was destroyed by the sea and the pirates.

Sample of the birds of Margarita

Maria Guevara’s teats.
Maria Guevara’s teats

By the way, when you’re in the rooms in the upper floor, take a look through the window and you’ll have a spectacular sight of the “Maria Guevara’s teats”