Exhibition
Cinquecento Medusae: jellyfish invasion with a climate change message
- Date
- Monday 24 March 2025 - Saturday 24 May 2025
- Location
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Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden
What do jellyfish have to do with climate change? Find out as you walk beneath hundreds of jellyfish, starting 24 March in the Kamerlingh Onnes Building of the Leiden Law School.
Organised by Leiden University Green Office and by our university's central sustainability team, the Cinquecento Medusae exhibition by artist Rosanna Baledda aims to raise awareness about climate change and the impact on oceans. It does this by alerting the public to a phenomenon caused by climate change and marine pollution: the advance of jellyfish and the disappearance of biodiversity.
Jellyfish are very beautiful, and the exhibition shows this, but their rampant multiplication is a symptom of a serious problem. It also highlights the point of view of sea turtles, which love to eat jellyfish, but confuse them with the many plastic in the ocean.
Official opening: 24 March at 16:00
You are warmly invited to attend the official opening from 16-17.00 on Monday 24 March, with presentations from the artist, Urgenda and the Swiss ambassador to the Netherlands. Deadline to register: 19 March.
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