Location: ECOMARE Visitor Centre Dates: December 2013 – 23 February 2015 Description: In December 2013, the bilingual English-Dutch MARLISCO Exhibition and the 3 marine litter sculptures were transferred to the island of Texel and hosted at the Visitor’s Centre ECOMARE, until February 2015. It is estimated that 300,000 people visit ECOMARE every year! Photographs from this site: Return to […]
MARLISCO’s Dutch partner, the Coastal and Marine Union (EUCC), was responsible for the preparation and circulation of the Exhibition in the Netherlands. Three locations of great impact were chosen as the hosts of the Exhibition, each receiving several hundred thousands of visitors every year. Additional elements, such as sculptures made of waste were added to […]
Location: Democritus Research Centre – MARLISCO exhibition at the Researchers’ Night Dates: 26 September 2014 Description: The National Research Centre “Demokritos”, in Athens, reopened its doors to children and adults in a tour to the fascinating world of science, research and technology. More than 1.500 people took part in the Researcher’s Night on 26/09/2014. MARLISCO Exhibition was there, as […]
Location: Neo Faliro Beach @ Attika – MARLISCO Exhibition joins an ICC cleanup day Dates: 20 September 2014 Description: The MARLISCO Exhibition was displayed in a cleanup organised within the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day 2014. The ICC is the largest annual global volunteer effort to remove and record litter on the coastal and marine environment, bringing […]
Location: Varkiza Coast @ Attica Region – MARLISCO Exhibition as part of the European Clean Up Day 2014 Dates: 10 May 2014 Description: The MARLISCO exhibition travelled on shore … to be part of a voluntary beach cleanup organised in the framework of the European Clean up Day. Some 150 people, younger and older volunteers, families, visitors, swimmers and […]
Location: Technopolis @ Athens – MARLISCO Exhibition in the 1st Athens Science Festival Dates: 30 April – 04 May 2014 Description: The MARLISCO Exhibition in Greece was first displayed during the 1st Athens Science Festival. More than 5,000 visitors including school groups, university researchers, families, artists and scientists took part in the rich 5 day long Science Festival that […]
MARLISCO’s Exhibition was designed by the Greek project partner, MIO-ECSDE, who then was also responsible for constructing the exhibition in Greece and managing its travels around the country. Over the duration of the project, the Exhibition travelled to five different locations, and ‘participated’ in many interesting events including beach cleanups, as part of awareness-raising activities. […]
Location: Kattegat Centre (Kattegatcenteret) Dates: 25 November 2014 – 27 March 2015 Description: The next host city was Grenå (population 14.601) and the location was the Kattegat Centre that has a shark aquarium. This was the only city on the eastern coast of Denmark, which is less affected by marine litter. 2 school classes were invited to the opening […]
Location: Varde High School (Varde Gymnasium og HF) Dates: 7 – 30 October 2014 Description: Varde High School hosted the exhibition in October 2014. The municipality of Varde has over 45 km of coastline which is mostly sandy beaches (city population 13.416). These teenagers have grown up with activities on the beaches and were a good audience. The exhibition […]
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. […]