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Title
Atlantic City Aquarium
Description
Located in Atlantic City’s Historic Gardner's Basin, the Atlantic City Aquarium offers a fun and educational look into more than 100 varieties of fish and marine animals. The Atlantic City Aquarium's eight tanks total 29,800 gallons of live exhibits. Highlights include the Fish of the New Jersey Coast Aquarium, which holds 23,000 gallons and teems with sea bass, lookdowns, sand tiger sharks, northern stingray, bluefish, weakfish, and kingfish. The 750-gallon Touch Tank allows visitors to handle green, horseshoes, hermit and spider crabs, sea urchins, seastars, common periwinkle, channel and knobbed whelk, horse and blue mussels, and common shore shrimp. Each exhibit features computer-enhanced information stations for self-tours, in addition to a 16-station Ocean Life Education Center for personal, in-depth exploration by visitors.
The Center is also accessible to the public via boat. It has become a center for community gatherings and the perfect venue for parties and meetings.
The Main floor atrium displays 29,800 gallons of live exhibits. The second floor features interactive exhibits, 16 computer stations and a 577-square-foot classroom/ meeting room with state-of-the-art communications technology. The second and third floor indoor/outdoor observation decks round out the facility.
Contact
- Historic Gardner's Basin
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- Atlantic City NJ
- United States 08401
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- (609) 697-0549
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