Marine Extinction Museum

Client: WWF

Discipline: Digital

The idea

In Portugal, there are 71 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Knowing the life and its importance in these areas and being aware of the extinction threats hanging over them. NOSSA, in partnership with the BioDiVAMP project that develops tools to monitor and protect biodiversity in MPAs, thought of a way to show where the species of the Portuguese coast will end up if we do not conserve their habitats: the Museum of Marine Extinction (MEM). A space that we hope will never come to be. But it opened to the public as a virtual museum, designed by architect Ricardo Bak Gordon (author of the new Coach Museum). With free and permanent entry, at MEM we can find and learn more about many species that still inhabit our sea. After numerous news and thousands of visits, we were left with the hope of, one day, closing this museum for good.