Manama, Jan. 15 (BNA): The Bahrain National Museum welcomed Prince Hussain Aga Khan and documentary photographer Simon Piccoli, who met school students in the “Living Sea” exhibition hosted by the museum and showed some of their vibrant photos.
The meeting aims to introduce the younger generations to the importance of sea worlds and ways to preserve and protect them.
Students accompanied the prince on a tour of the exhibition halls and got acquainted with photos and videos that explore the wonders of the sea world wonders of Egypt, Mexico and Tonga and their unique amazing animals such as humpback whales, dolphins, turtles, sharks, giant whale sharks, manta rays, seals and sea lions.
The students had a special opportunity to live a unique, immersive experience.
Bahrain is the second stop in “The Living Sea” after its successful opening in Venice.
The exhibition is being held in Bahrain, in cooperation with the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA), the Arab Regional Center for World Heritage, and Focused on Nature, the Swiss association established by Hussain Aga Khan to promote, through photography, awareness of environmental causes, especially species and ecosystems with Importance and marine biodiversity.