Description
🌏The oceans cover 70.8% of our planet’s surface. Climate, biodiversity, transport, energy, food, health… It is at the heart of the greatest challenges of the 21st century.
Drawing on the expertise of scientists, training bodies and industry in the maritime sector, 70.8 is a new kind of science museum in Brest, a technological complement toOcéanopolis, the project’s originator. From marine biotechnologies to deep-sea exploration, from maritime routes to renewable marine energy, from tomorrow’s means of transport to satellite-based knowledge of the ocean, 70.8 makes advances in knowledge accessible to all.
Innovations from the ocean world on show:
Molecules of marine origin are omnipresent in our daily lives. Some sweets, desserts and cold meats contain seaweed, which is used in particular for its gelling properties. In medicine, a starfish molecule blocks the cell division that causes certain cancers. Countless molecules of marine origin are at the origin of medicines often found in our medicine cabinets. Fluorescence, discovered in the 1950s, revolutionised medical imaging. Researchers originally worked on the luminescence of jellyfish.
To be discovered on 70.8 :
On deep-sea exploration, the scenographers have reconstructed a hydrothermal spring with octopuses and giant worms. You can also see the various exploration devices used to dive to depths of up to 6,000 metres!
You’ll also discover this astonishing projection on the floor of a sandy and rocky foreshore nearly 20 metres deep, where visitors can interact with some of the animals of Brittany’s coastline.
Visitors are in for a real sea voyage, as well as a scientific expedition!
📆Open all year round
