Region: Tidewater and Hampton Roads
Locality: Virginia Beach City
717 General Booth Boulevard
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
Since it opened in 1986, the Virginia Marine Science Museum has been one of the state's most popular museums. Currently featuring more than 100,000 of aquariums, the museum takes visitors on a journey of water through Virginia. Visitors can stroll through the indoor Coastal River Room where birds and turtles roam free, marvel at a 50,000 gallon aquarium with the largest collection of Chesapeake Bay fish in the world and touch gentle stingrays, horseshoe crabs and other marine life. The museum also has many interactive exhibits where visitors can take part in such activities as building a fish, creating hurricanes or tonging for oysters.The museum also offers seasonal boat trips for dolphin watching, whale watching and ocean collections. During the summer, bottlenose dolphins congregate in the waters off Virginia Beach.
Telephone:
Information & Reservations: (757) 437-4949
Recording: (757) 425-FISH
TDD: (757) 427-4305
Email:
www.vmsm.com/contact.html
Website:
www.vmsm.com
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