Arts and culture

Exhibition: Cinquecento Medusae - jellyfish invasion with a climate change message

Date

Monday 24 March 2025 - Saturday 24 May 2025

Address

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.

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.