Fantastic Sea Monsters Travelling data sheet

Discover the most enthralling, enigmatic sea legends through the Fantastic Sea Monsters

exhibition. Our seas are populated by creatures that have sparked countless myths and legends,

due to their sheer size, strange shape, or baffling behaviour. Giant squids and octopi, whales,

narwhals, sharks, sea snakes, and leatherback turtles are fascinating creatures. Since the dawn of

time we have watched and tried to catch them in our lakes, seas… and the St. Lawrence

River!Thanks to a major production with photographs, ancient engravings, film clips, object and

artwork collections, multimedia, and even an interactive videogame (www.monstresmarins.ca),

discover fabulous animals and the scientific truths about them!

Financial partners: Saguenay, Cultural Capital of Canada 2010, Canadian Heritage and

ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la

Condition féminine du Québec.

Produced by: Musée du Fjord, in partnership with The Rooms

(Newfoundland-Labrador), Maritime Museum of British

Columbia, and Océanopolis (France).

Datasheet: Floor space: 200 m2. Height of ceiling: 2.43 m.

• 5 zones

• 54 free-standing panels-modules

• 60-inch touch-sensitive screen

• 3 22-inch TVs

• 3 touch-screen computers

• Video projections on fabric (Jaws, Godzilla, Moby

Dick, Pirates of the Caribbean)

• 5 interactive audio borders

• 3 motion detectors

Artefacts:

• Greek vase

• 2 tentaclesculptures(7 feet long)

• Sawshark rostrum

• Sea bishop sculpture (6 feet long)

• Spear gun

• Whale vertebra

• Sperm whale tooth

• Bomb lance

• Squid mouth

• Mako shark jaw

• Greenland shark jaw

• Hammerhead shark and blue shark (life-size) reproductions

• Siren sculpture (6 feet long)

• 2 Barnum circus sirens (Océanopolis)

• Caddy paint

• Plesiosaur skull

• Learningmaterial (guided tour,

learninggames)

• Audio/video material (Captain’s promotional

video, Ashuapsvideo (gumboots), available on

YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/museedufjord

Availability and rates: For further information call

Ms. Véronique Gagné, coordinator of public and

educationalservices, at 418 697-5077, ext. 26.