Sea Museum, Marine museum in El Tesoro, Uruguay.

The Sea Museum, opened in 1996 in La Barra, Maldonado, occupies about 2,300 m2 and holds over 5,000 labelled marine specimens, including whale skeletons, sea urchins, starfish and turtle shells. It also displays an early 20th-century bathing machine used by women, old photographs, and telescopes and blunderbusses in a pirates section.

The museum was established in 1996 and displays historical maritime objects, including a vintage bathing machine that women used in the early 1900s. This collection preserves memories of the early days of bathing culture along Uruguay's coast.

The Beach Resort section shows how coastal living and tourism changed in Uruguay through photographs and objects on display. You can see how people spent their leisure time by the sea in earlier times.

The museum occupies about 2,300 m2 in La Barra, Maldonado, and is open to the public all year round. Its exhibition spaces are grouped into several halls, so plan enough time to see the marine collection, the pirate room, the deep-sea room and the other sections in one visit.

The Insectarium holds three separate collections totalling 38,000 specimens, most of them beetles, alongside moths, cicadas and grasshoppers. It sits within a complex that also includes the Museum of the Book, where thousands of volumes are grouped by country of origin and by theme, from science fiction and horror to gauchos, aviation and old editions.