Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

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www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org


San Pedro

Country: USA

State: California


Opened 1935


Species 200




Explore the seas from Southern California, start at the Kelp forests with fish like the giant kelpfish and go on to the rocky shores home to sea starts. At the mudflats you meet the fiddlers crab and at the sandy beaches the Californian grunion. Finally out in the open ocean you meet the funny Californian sea lions

Last visit 2015


Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
3720 Stephen M White Drive
San Pedro
CA 90731
USA


Phone nr 310-548-7562


Open minimum Tuesday-Friday 12-5pm and weekend 10am-5pm. Closed Mondays, Christmas and Thanksgiving 

 

 

Entrance fee (these are sugested donations)

  • Adult 7 Dollars
  • Child 3 Dollar

 

Annual card 

  • Adult 50 dollars
  • Family* 75 dollars

*Family cards are valid for 2 adults in the same household and up to 2 children, each additional child is 10$

 

 

There are several daily feeding shows, for the time please ask at the till station.


History

The aquarium began in 1935 as a collection of marine specimens stored in the Cabrillo Beach Bathhouse. In 1949, John Olguin, captain of the Cabrillo Beach lifeguards, was appointed director of the museum. He popularized the aquarium by giving impromptu tours to visiting school groups as well as starting the popular evening program of viewing and learning about the bizarre grunion mating practices on the beach. On October 21, 1981, the new $3 million, Frank Gehry-designed museum opened and the old museum closed. Throughout the 1990s, the museum experienced significant growth and its name was changed from Cabrillo Marine Museum to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium to highlight its living collections. It expanded its public programs sector and added an Ocean Outreach Education program, a discovery lab, and a child volunteer program named Sea Rangers. They also created a non-profit, called the Friends of the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, to assist in funding. In 2004, the facility expanded with an Exploration Center, the S. Mark Taper Foundation Courtyard, an Aquatic Nursery research lab and the Virginia Reed Moore Research Library. The expansion was designed by Barton Phelps & Associates

After giving the donation we enter the Susanne Lawrenz-Miller Exhibit Hall. The first area are the rycky shores where we meet the herbivores and carnivores of the ocean in size of snails, crabs and anemones. Going on to the tide area with its animals, some of which even can be touched. . Then its time to look at even more crustaceans. Then its time to look at the kelp forest and its inhabitants, like the octopus and moray eel. The area even descripes why camouflage is good and how it is used in the animal world. Then its time to look at the sandy beaches and its inhabitants like the bay pipefish. Following is the mudflat with stuffed waders. Outside of beaches we meet the life of harbours and how offshore oil makes an impact on its suroundings.  As interesting is the next jelly lab with moon jelly's life from small polyps to adult animals. The last area is showing the life of the open sea, starting with plankton and ending with the largest animals ever, the whales and theire life. At the aquatic nursery across you can se juvenil animals and a living laboratory. Next door is the exploration center, where you can be the scientist and get a worm's eye view of the mud among other.


DE: Dieses Aquarium ist eher ein Museum das versucht, das Leben und Treiben der Küste näher zu bringen. Deshalben werden viele lebendige kleinere Lebewesen gezeigt.

DK: Dette akvarium er snarere er museum, der forsøger, at få dig nærmere til livet og trivslen i og af havet. Derfor vises en del små dyr.
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