Aquariums

Located near Philadelphia on the Delaware River, the Adventure Aquarium is the world’s only aquarium to exhibit hippos. Visitors can view over 8,500 aquatic species including the East Coast’s largest collection of sharks, and touch tank experiences with sharks and stingrays. Favorite

View endangered red wolves. Get up close to a loggerhead turtle and jellyfish. See fish with no eyes and frogs that change colors. Touch live horseshoe crabs and fossilized dinosaur tracks. It’s all at the Virginia Living Museum, Newport News, where living exhibits depict Virginia’s natural heritage from the mountains to the sea. The museum introduces visitors to more than 250 living species native to Virginia through exhibits, discovery centers and interactive hands-on exhibits. Opened in 1966 as the Junior Nature Museum and Planetarium through the combined efforts of the Junior League of Hampton Roads and the Warwick Rotary Club, the facility expanded and was renamed the Peninsula Nature and Science Center in 1976. In 1987, the facility again expanded and was renamed the Virginia Living Museum, becoming the first living museum east of the Mississippi, combining the elements of a native wildlife park, science museum, aquarium, botanical preserve and planetarium. Today the Virginia Living Museum is still a museum leader in its use of living exhibits (animals, plants, marine creatures, reptiles, amphibians, birds) to present its message – connecting people to nature through educational experiences that promote conservation. Each exhibit tells a story. There is the predator-prey relationship between […]