“Oceania Distant and Near”: An Exhibition at the Kaliningrad World Ocean Museum

Abstract

The World Ocean Museum presents the exhibition “Oceania Distant and Near” within the framework of the Fifth International Scientific and Practical Conference, “Problems of studying and preserving the marine heritage” (October 5-9, 2021). This exhibition, integrated into the exposition “People of the Sea” in the Maritime Exhibition Center of our museum in Svetlogorsk, is dedicated to the history of the eighteenth voyage of the NIS Dmitry Mendeleev in 1976-77 to Oceania, for the purpose of comprehensive study of the Pacific Islands. Scientists carried out oceanological work and studied the nature and population of this amazing territory, while the artists accompanying the expedition, M. L. Plakhova and B. V. Alekseev, created hundreds of wonderful works vividly conveying exotic life, types, traditions and unique culture of the Oceania islands.