Those wings... I want them too.
АнглийскийWhen the autumn came I started to spend much less time going out. The weather is not so tempting, and educational activities started, and the working mood came back... However, we've made a sortie to one of Moscow oceanariums, Moskvarium, at the VDNKh expo center. Actually, it was not our own idea. Vova was presented a "box of impressions" on his birthday at work (with this one). It is a set of different activities to select and use the one you liked the most. I don't think it's too useful gift for friends or relatives, as it's easier and cheaper to discuss desired pastime directly and just buy tickets. But as a corporate present it may be a good choice. The birthday was in May, the "box" had limited validity, so we decided to use it before it has expired.
In the summer VDNKh expo center was under reconstruction. That's strange to make one of the most popular Moscow rest places blocked, dug up and noisy in the main rest season. We tried to go for a walk there once in June or July and got disappointed a little bit. Anyway, now the reconstruction is almost finished, many pavilions look like new. But the middle part is still fenced, may be they have already started to build winter ice rink. Fountains are off, but the aircrafts are on their usual places:
The Moskvarium is located in the special, quite huge, building. It has a statue with dolphins in front of the entrance (or exit, in the case of this photo):
Main part of the oceanarium is located on the basement floor and is organized as a set of big aquariums, built into the walls and having one or more windows for the viewers. Windows at the beginning are crowded a little bit, that can be irritating, but further people (and kids) scatter and you can observe the aquariums much more freely. In my opinion, the start of the exposition is not so interesting. If that was done intentionally, it was a wise decision.
I guess, content of some aquariums is quite expensive. Of this one, for example, that is inhabited by different sturgeon breeds:
Though this previous may look faded and gray, there is a great variety of shapes and colors deeper in the exhibition:
Sometimes fishes can stare at you with various "facial" expressions:
And sometimes those expressions can be very funny from the human perspective:
As it can be seen on some photos above, there are not only fishes on the exhibition, but a lot of other water forms of life. It may be not so clear, but that's a crocodile (too uncommunicative crocodile):
There are turtles, lobsters, sea stars, corals, seaweeds, etc. That's pity that the lighting didn't allow us to make photo of seals (the photo flash was forbidden on the exposition). Photos with medusas can sometimes look in a very cosmic way:
And color illumination can make them looking like a part of a fantasy:
The were sharks, sure. Many of them, in a huge aquarium, along with others large fishes. I think, it's not only the rows of sharp teeth that make them so intimidating, but also the insane look in their eyes:
There were not only large sharks. A pair of aquariums were open, one of them, a small one, was said to be a "touch aquarium", where you can immerse your hand into water and reach for its inhabitants. I do not know, whether this one was "touch" too, but I would not risk putting a hand there:
There was also a performance with dolphins and killer whales on the higher floor, but the tickets for it should had been bought separately. We didn't go there. There was a windows to the bottom of their pool, but it was hard to discern anything there, especially during the performance. We saw only vague shadows and silhouettes. However, may be there was something even in such view, something mysterious...
Yes, oceanarium is something that is better to see, than to read about. So, I'm finishing my picture-spam post. Hoping, it was impressive enough
In the summer VDNKh expo center was under reconstruction. That's strange to make one of the most popular Moscow rest places blocked, dug up and noisy in the main rest season. We tried to go for a walk there once in June or July and got disappointed a little bit. Anyway, now the reconstruction is almost finished, many pavilions look like new. But the middle part is still fenced, may be they have already started to build winter ice rink. Fountains are off, but the aircrafts are on their usual places:
The Moskvarium is located in the special, quite huge, building. It has a statue with dolphins in front of the entrance (or exit, in the case of this photo):
Main part of the oceanarium is located on the basement floor and is organized as a set of big aquariums, built into the walls and having one or more windows for the viewers. Windows at the beginning are crowded a little bit, that can be irritating, but further people (and kids) scatter and you can observe the aquariums much more freely. In my opinion, the start of the exposition is not so interesting. If that was done intentionally, it was a wise decision.
I guess, content of some aquariums is quite expensive. Of this one, for example, that is inhabited by different sturgeon breeds:
Though this previous may look faded and gray, there is a great variety of shapes and colors deeper in the exhibition:
Sometimes fishes can stare at you with various "facial" expressions:
And sometimes those expressions can be very funny from the human perspective:
As it can be seen on some photos above, there are not only fishes on the exhibition, but a lot of other water forms of life. It may be not so clear, but that's a crocodile (too uncommunicative crocodile):
There are turtles, lobsters, sea stars, corals, seaweeds, etc. That's pity that the lighting didn't allow us to make photo of seals (the photo flash was forbidden on the exposition). Photos with medusas can sometimes look in a very cosmic way:
And color illumination can make them looking like a part of a fantasy:
The were sharks, sure. Many of them, in a huge aquarium, along with others large fishes. I think, it's not only the rows of sharp teeth that make them so intimidating, but also the insane look in their eyes:
There were not only large sharks. A pair of aquariums were open, one of them, a small one, was said to be a "touch aquarium", where you can immerse your hand into water and reach for its inhabitants. I do not know, whether this one was "touch" too, but I would not risk putting a hand there:
There was also a performance with dolphins and killer whales on the higher floor, but the tickets for it should had been bought separately. We didn't go there. There was a windows to the bottom of their pool, but it was hard to discern anything there, especially during the performance. We saw only vague shadows and silhouettes. However, may be there was something even in such view, something mysterious...
Yes, oceanarium is something that is better to see, than to read about. So, I'm finishing my picture-spam post. Hoping, it was impressive enough
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