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Shedd Aquarium. Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago. Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium.
A whale shark at Georgia Aquarium, the largest in the United States. A public aquarium ( pl. aquaria) or public water zoo is the aquatic counterpart of a zoo, which houses living aquatic animal and plant specimens for public viewing. Most public aquariums feature tanks larger than those kept by home aquarists, as well as smaller tanks.
Born on a New Hampshire farm on July 20, 1850, Shedd arrived in Chicago, Illinois in 1871 and began working as a stock clerk for Marshall Field. [1] By 1901, he had worked his way up to a vice-presidency and took over as president upon Field's death in 1906. Field himself described Shedd as "the greatest merchant in the United States," and ...
Shedd Aquarium in the Museum Campus at dawn. Museum Campus is a 57-acre (23 ha) park in Chicago facing Lake Michigan in Grant Park. It encompasses five of the city's major attractions: the Adler Planetarium, America's first planetarium; the Shedd Aquarium; the Field Museum of Natural History. It is adjacent to Soldier Field, home of the NFL ...
California Science Center - Los Angeles. Central Coast Aquarium - Avila Beach. Heal the Bay Aquarium - Santa Monica. Monterey Bay Aquarium - Monterey. Ocean World - Crescent City. Roundhouse Aquarium - Manhattan Beach. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center - Santa Barbara. Sea Life Aquarium at Legoland California - Carlsbad.
Georgia Aquarium. / 33.76278°N 84.39472°W / 33.76278; -84.39472. Georgia Aquarium is a public aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It exhibits hundreds of species and thousands of animals across its seven major galleries, all of which reside in more than 11 million US gallons (42,000 m 3) of water.
Added to NRHP. September 5, 1975. The Field Museum of Natural History ( FMNH ), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. [4] The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, [5] [6] and its extensive scientific ...
World's largest marine life park. Belugas swimming in the Abbott Oceanarium at the Shedd Aquarium. The lower level of the Oceanarium allows underwater viewing of the beluga whales and the dolphins. When a new 170,000-square-foot exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago opened on April 27, 1991, it debuted as the largest indoor marine mammal ...