Location: Municipal building in Holstebro (Holstebro Rådhus) Dates: 22 September – 7 October 2014 Description: The MARLISCO exhibition was set up at the municipal building in Holstebro as a special feature for the annual KIMO conference held in Denmark in October 2014. The courtyard in the building has many visitors passing through or visiting the municipal offices and library. […]
Location: North Sea Oceanarium (Nørsøen Oceanarium) Dates: 8 – 31 July 2014 and 31 March 2014 – Summer 2015 Description: A visit to the top of Denmark was the next location. The North Sea Oceanarium is one of the top attractions of northern Denmark with 165.000 visitors in 2014. It hosts one of northern Europe’s largest aquariums. Hirtshals (population 5.959) […]
Location: Coastal Museum (Kystcentret) Dates: 27 May – 25 June 2014 Description: The exhibition moved up the coast to the fishing village of Thyborøn. Thyborøn is a traditional Danish fishing village and relies greatly on the sea for its wealth (population 2.119). The area attracts many tourists because of special attractions such as the coastal museum. The museum […]
Location: Esbjerg Municipal Building (Esbjerg Rådhus) Dates: 6 – 15 May 2014 Description: This was the official launch of the exhibition in Denmark. Esbjerg is the largest city on the west coast of Denmark (population 115.100). The city traditionally had a large fishing fleet which has now been replaced by a traffic harbour and offshore oil industry. The […]
MARLISCO’s Exhibition in Denmark was prepared and manged by the project’s Danish partner, KIMO Denmark. Over the duration of the project, the Exhibition travelled to seven separate locations in Denmark, including schools, municipalities and oceanariums. Click on the map or use the sidebar on the left to find out more about the Exhibition in Denmark. […]
Location: Liskeard Hillfort Primary School Dates: 17 March 2015 – Description: The exhibition then travelled upstream to Liskeard Hillfort Primary School, where it was displayed in the reception entrance hall for children, parents, staff and visitors to see. The school ran related events on the issues of waste, plastic and marine litter to get children thinking about […]
Location: Mount Edgcumbe Country House and Country Park, Cornwall Dates: 12 July 2014 – 13 August 2014 Description: The next stop was in the South West of England at Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park, on the coast of Cornwall. The venue was a lovely large space which allowed us to maximise our collaboration with the artists Lou McCurdy […]
Location: Onca Gallery, Brighton Dates: 14 November 2014 – 26 December 2013 Description: The first UK MARLISCO exhibition ran in collaboration with an art installation organised by the ONCA Gallery in the coastal town of Brighton (in the South East of England). We had the opportunity to combine the MARLISCO exhibition with a unique artistic installation […]
The MARLISCO Exhibition in the United Kingdom was prepared and managed by MARLISCO’s UK partner, University of Plymouth, who arranged for its travels to five locations on the south coast of the UK. The Exhibition included additional elements such as the ‘waste supermarket’, an installation by the ‘Dirty Beach’ artists comprisd of supermarket shelves stacked with plastic […]
Location: Anton Dohrn Zoological Station, Naples Dates: 10 September 2014 – 30 October 2014 Description: Alongside the Exhibition, Di Franco’s art work (Free at last – o.t. “Finalmente Libero”) from the art contest was also exposed, in this significant location in Naples. It is estimated that nearly 5,000 visitors saw the Exhibition over its stay here. Photographs from site: Return to […]