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Seattle Aquarium

October 24, 2008 – 1:28 pm

The Seattle Aquarium is a public aquarium located on Pier 59 on Seattle, USA’s Elliot Bay waterfront. Run by the city, it opened on May 20, 1977. After the closure of Ivar Haglund’s Ivar’s Aquarium in 1956, the city was at a loss for its major attraction. In 1977, the city opened up its own aquarium, the “‘Seattle Aquarium’”.

The Seattle Aquarium recently underwent an expansion, which opened in June 2007. This expansion increased the Aquarium’s size by 18,000 square feet and included a new exterior, entrance, and exhibit hall. Another feature of the expansion is the Puget Sound Great Hall, a three story building with interactive educational kiosks, sea life art, and conservation exhibits focused on Puget Sound’s ecosystems. The Window on Washington Waters is a 17-foot by 39-foot, 120,000 gallon exhibit based on Neah Bay’s rock blades, containing salmon, rockfish, sea anemones, kelp, and other marine life. The transition hall between the Windows on Washington Water exhibit to the tidal waters of the Life on the Edge exhibit will feature an open 40-foot by 8-foot Wave Tank allowing visitors to observe how marine animals and plants survive in turbulent water.

The Seattle Aquarium became the first institution in the world to raise sea otters from conception to adulthood with the birth of Tichuk in 1979, followed by three more pups in the early eighties.

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