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Expedition to the World's Oceans

1.1. The Blue Planet / Surveying the world's oceans

  • Hand log with roller, rope and log stick © DSM/Schnellerfassung
  • Staff map "medô", 19th / early 20th century © Anatol Dreyer

1.2. The Blue Planet / Underwater Worlds

  • Underwater robot explores the deep sea © SeaTops | Alamy Stock Foto
  • Luminescent jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca) © Sven Bachström | Alamy Stock Foto

  • Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, Cassiopea frondosa, glass model, © Carola Radke, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN 2008)
  • Alfred Erhardt, Trophon geversianus, Strait of Magellan, 1938/41, print 1968 © Alfred Ehrhard Stiftung
  • Triton’s horn (Charonia tritonis) © Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), photo Eran Wolff, Judith Hingst

1.3. The Blue Planet / Endangered Habitats

  • Joan Fontcuberta, Joan Fontcuberta diving in "The Rip", Direction Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 2024 © Joan Fontcuberta
  • Margarete and Christine Wertheim; the team at the Museum Frieder Burda art workshop with over 4,000 reefers, Satellite Reef – Variegated, 2021/22 © The Institute for Figuring, Christine Wertheim, Margaret Wertheim, photo: Nikolay Kazakov, Karlsruhe; courtesy of Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
  • Steffen Blandzinski, Plastic Waste Animals – Nano Butadien, Genoa, 2024 © 2024 Steffen Blandzinski

2.1. Global Oceans / Oceans in Exchange

  • Edward Burtynsky, Shipbreaking 32, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2001 © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Galerie Springer Berlin
  • Abraham Storck, Whaling Grounds in the Arctic Ocean, 1654–1708 © Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
  • Aleuts, Wooden models of a kuliochok (baleen whale) and an abugulich (baleen whale), 1817 © Carola Radke, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN)

3.2. Of People and Seas / Legends, Myths, Adventures

  • Krüger Jr., The Man-Eater (Latin: Squalus Carcharias) from: Marcus Elieser Bloch (ed.): Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands (Economic Natural History of the Fishes of Germany), Berlin 1782-1795 © Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN)
  • Netsuke: Water spirit (ningyo), 17th/18th century © Anatol Dreyer
  • The Endurance in the pack ice during Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica, 1915, photo Frank Hurley © Public Domain
  • Sinking Endurance in the pack ice, 1915 © Public Domain