Built underwater museum in Africa

The Kenyan government has planned to build Africa's first underwater museum, the aim is to study marine life and wrecks.

American architects are planning to design this underwater museum and it is expected that the project will be started in 2014. State budget funding for this national project is at all levels of government. discuss.

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Kenya intends to build the first underwater museum in Europe
Africa.In the picture is Malindi Sea National Park, Kenya.

When construction was completed, Kenya was one of the few countries with underwater museums, similar to the United States, Britain and China built earlier.

Kenya's underwater museum location is in the coastal area near Malindi town - a popular tourist destination in Malindi Bay located on the Indian Ocean coast of the country.

'Wrecks in the Indian Ocean coastline attract a lot of sheltering marine creatures as well as finding food that is the microorganisms on the ship's woody body. We will cooperate with international organizations to study marine life as well as shipwrecks here, ' said archaeologist Cesar Bita at the Kenya National Museum, speaking on the Guardian.

Marine life resides in the diverse Malindi coastline, from fish, turtles and even dolphins. The identity of the dead from shipwrecks is also stored at the water museum in Kenya.

'The plan as well as the idea of ​​building an underwater museum is amazing but quite expensive, while the Kenyan government criticizes at least 1% of the annual budget for research and scientific innovation. ' Professor Germano Mwabu works at the University of Nairobi Economics Department (Kenya).

There is much work to do for other projects - according to Mwabu - for example, investing in a health research project like malaria treatment that threatens millions of people in the country every year.