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Exhibits Explore Award-Winning Exhibits

Experience dozens of unique aquatic habitats—from a northern Australian river gorge to an Indo-Pacific reef to a tropical rain forest—all interconnected by the binding force of water.

Harbor Wetland®

Immerse yourself in a re-created salt marsh habitat like those that existed in Baltimore City hundreds of years ago.

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Upland Tropical Rain Forest

Australia: Wild Extremes

Blacktip Reef

Jellies Invasion

Shark Alley

Featured Animals Thousands of Animals. Hundreds of Species. One Aquarium.

Learn about animals from all over our blue planet—from the depths of the ocean to the canopy of the rain forest—and discover the connection they all share with water.

Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)

The green sea turtle gets its name not from the color of its shell but from the greenish shade of its fat.

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Sea Stars (Asteroidea)

Cardinal Tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi)

Horn Shark (Heterodontus francisci)

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