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These works of art have gone under water.

Europe’s first sunken-sculpture museum, the Museo Atlantico, recently opened off Spain’s Lanzarote island and is accessible to scuba divers and snorkelers.

Dreamed up by British artist Jason deCaires Taylor, the exhibit features 300 sculptures, including figures modeled on the Guanches, ancient inhabitants of the Canary Islands. It opened on Jan. 10.

It also includes a sculpture of a botanical garden, a 90-foot-long wall, and a twisted cactus.

Even before its official opening, the museum had already been visited by schools of sharks, barracudas and octopuses.

The exhibit is meant as “a tribute to those who succeed but also those whose dreams and hopes remain at the bottom of the sea,” Taylor wrote on his website.

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