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Best time
Visit early in the day or on weekdays to avoid summer afternoon crowds. The museum's most popular interactive exhibit—the ship cabin control station overlooking the Detroit River—is best experienced when there's space to linger and watch passing barges.
Visitor tip
Don't miss the hands-on interactive exhibits, particularly the pilot house control station donated from an actual demolished ship. This exhibit provides an authentic, engaging way to understand Great Lakes maritime history.
About Seattle Aquarium
Popular waterfront aquarium with interactive exhibits, a cafe & virtual reality shows.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Aquarium
- Exhibits
- Window on Washington Waters (rocky reef and kelp forest ecosystem of the Salish Sea), The Reef (tropical habitat with Indo-Pacific fish, sharks, rays, bowmouth guitarfish), The Archipelago (mangrove forest and coral lagoon), harbor seal habitat, sea otter habitat, northern fur seal habitat
What visitors say
Okay let me give my honest review. We recently visited the Seattle Aquarium and had mixed feelings. Tickets were about $140 for two adults and one child, which felt pretty steep for what we experienced overall. The original part of the…
Don’t forget to go to both buildings!! Totally goofed and had to come back to see the other building. You have to pay at the original building and can go to the pavilion after. The pavilion tanks seem to be taken care of a bit better…
The aquarium supplies is water from the Puget Sound!! One of the buildings is much more open to the outside than the other two, so if you're going while it's kind of chilly, be sure to take your coat! The new construction is for…
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Did You Know?
- The museum features a fully restored pilot house from the SS William Clay Ford with sweeping views of the Detroit River, allowing visitors to experience an actual ship's control station that overlooks active barge traffic on the river
- The museum displays the recovered bow anchor from the Edmund Fitzgerald, the famous Great Lakes freighter that sank in 1975, which was recovered in the 1990s
- The museum features a Gothic Room from the S.S. City of Detroit III, a preserved historic cabin that provides insight into luxury passenger ship design on the Great Lakes
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