Ocean Science Exhibition

The Foundation’s Ocean Science Multimedia Exhibition on the Cap San Diego in Hamburg offers a place of learning for the general public and particularly for school pupils from the 5th grade and above who are interested in the UN Ocean Decade and the challenges facing our ocean today.

Supported by more than 75 partners and stakeholders, the exhibition was the first - and indeed remains the only exhibition - to be dedicated to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development in Germany.

The Ocean Decade is a unique opportunity for ocean stakeholders from around the world to come together to share knowledge and foster partnerships needed to support a well-functioning, productive, resilient, sustainable and inspiring ocean. The exhibition aims to visibly support the goals of the Decade, serving as a learning space for all Hamburg schools, as the combination of multimedia installations, exhibits and the possibility of workshops and discussions makes for an attractive extracurricular program.

In addition to two world premieres: the microplastic collector, a project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate, and the first research diver-guided underwater satellite, the exhibition features an Argo Float, one of the 3,000 state-of-the-art measuring buoys currently deployed on the ocean, and an active algae reactor from the University of Hamburg showing how food and energy can be extracted in future from the ocean. Also on display is one of the first automatic measuring stations for ships, the OceanPack™ from the Kiel-based company SubCtech, which is also used by the professional sailor Boris Herrmann from Hamburg on board his IMOCA racing yacht Malizia Seaexplorer. An historic Swedish sea mine brought up from the Baltic seabed and art made from ghost nets by the Hamburg start-up Bracenet, together with a documentary on the salvage of legacy munition in the Baltic Sea, bring the topic of marine pollution to life. A touch table provides visitors with information on the Ocean Decade and allows them to watch films about the Foundation’s Research at sea competition winners on board the research vessel ALDEBARAN, from which a historical weather station is also on display.

The Cap San Diego, the world's largest seaworthy museum cargo ship now moored at the Überseebrücke in Hamburg, has been a maritime monument and floating hotel since 2003. The exhibition is set up in the freighter's former oil tank and hold and consists of a multimedia show on five large video screens and selected exhibits. The Ocean Science multimedia exhibition will be on display for the entire duration of the Ocean Decade.

This exhibition is powered by a photovoltaic system installed by Meyer Burger on the deck of the Cap San Diego - making it the first exhibition in Hamburg to rely solely on self-generated solar power.

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