The aquarium is open Tuesday to Friday noon to 5 p.m. The aquarium also has a gift shop with books, glassware, jewelry, t-shirts, and toys-everything for the perfect gift or souvenir.Īnd from December through April the aquarium sponsors the area’s best whale watching trips. External exhibits provide insight into food chains and how organisms survive in mud. Located just steps from the ocean on Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is a non-profit public aquarium which engages all visitors in education, recreation and research to promote knowledge, appreciation and conservation of the marine life of Southern California. And there’s a mud walkthrough where visitors get a worm’s eye view of the mud, including simulated interaction with organisms found in the mud, while moving through a squishy, tactile tunnel. It includes a crawl in aquarium” where visitors crawl into a large aquarium and are surrounded by teeming ocean life such as flatfish, sting rays, octopuses, and other creatures but never get wet. The award-winning Exploration Center challenges visitors to engage all five senses and use scientists’ tools as they explore the habitats of the nearby Cabrillo Coastal Park. There’s an aquatic nursery, research library, exhibit hall, exploration center, and more in the facility that help make complex topics fun and accessible with creative and informative exhibits. You can easily spend a leisurely day seeing the sights and exploring what this neighborhood has to offer. It’s housed in a striking facility designed by noted architect Frank Ghery at Cabrillo Beach. Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is located in Fort MacArthur. The aquarium, founded in 1935, is a facility of the City of Los Angeles with support from the Friends of the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium. But it isn’t a place to just look at the sea life it’s a place where you get to experience and interact with it close up.
San Pedro’s outstanding, accredited Cabrillo Marine Aquarium displays the largest collection of Southern California marine life in the world.
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