Dam Museum & Scenic Views

Hans took me to a museum located on an island between two huge dams, which chronicles their building as well as the general history of the surrounding area, mostly in terms of floods past and other dams in the area.

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Outside the museum were a few aquarium tanks.  Here's a ray of some sort.

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Flat fish		 2451_tigershark.jpg (24967 bytes)
Tiger shark		 2453_anenome.jpg (35234 bytes)
Anenome
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Woven mats filled with stones, laid down on the sea floor to help provide a stable surface to build on.		 2431_matlayermodel.jpg (16872 bytes)
Another type of mat laid on the sea floor.		 2425_wollymammoth.jpg (19995 bytes)
Wooly mammoth...or maybe it was a mastodon.  I don't read Dutch!		 2429_dammodel.jpg (13410 bytes)
Design of the floodwall at this location.
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Model of the area, which has moving dams and can be flooded to show the history of the area.		 2424_sailingship.jpg (25893 bytes) 2428_dammodel.jpg (25351 bytes)
A nearby dam of a different design.  The Dutch are problem the best dam engineers in the world!		 2430_map.jpg (36853 bytes)
The museum is found on the small island left of center.