Siren Songs, Fascination and Abyss
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Museu Marítim de Barcelona Avinguda de les Drassanes, 08001 Barcelona
Image courtesy of Museum Maritim.
Siren Songs, Fascination and Abyss is an exhibition dealing with the cultural expressions that have been generated by human beings through the course of time with regard to the fear and the fascination that are caused by the sea: beliefs, legends, tales, fantastic creatures, taboos, magic formulas and expressions of religiousness in everyday society.
The exhibition is divided into three sections: the sea and the fantastic creatures which, according to human imagination, inhabited the marine depths; the rites and legends dealing with how to protect a vessel that is about to go to sea, and maritime beliefs as part of the intangible heritage of humanity. Curated by the anthropologist Eliseu Carbonell.
Language English, Spanish and Catalan.
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A replica of Ictíneo I sits in the courtyard of the Museu Marítim de Barcelona. Photo by Vicente Zambrano González courtesy of Ajuntament de Barcelona (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
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