![]() ![]() Visit National Marine Aquarium for more information and to book online. Family virtual tours cost £79.99 per family. The National Marine Aquarium online lessons start Friday 15 January at 1pm on YouTube. Warm up with tropical fish or cool down with penguins in the snow. And, as virtual VIP visitors, families can also look forward to close-up encounters with cute aquarium residents like Friday the turtle. The National Aquarium in Baltimore offers an interactive virtual tour of all of their exhibits, one floor at a time. So you can expect tours to be amazingly good fun, fascinating and educational – particularly as families can ask questions and interact with Rangers, just like you would on a real day out. Each tour’s led by Ocean Discovery Rangers whose mission is creating an ‘ocean-literate’ generation by actively engaging kids in the wonder of the global marine environment. One of their many innovative solutions has been to offer family virtual tours of the aquarium so kids and parents can still enjoy the experience, even during lockdown, and know they’re helping to raise funds to help the National Marine Aquarium stay afloat while restrictions are in place.įamily virtual tours last an hour and take in all three aquarium zones local coasts, Atlantic Ocean and tropical reefs. The past year has been a challenging one for charities like the Ocean Conservation Trust tasked with keeping the National Marine Aquarium operational without the support of paying visitors. Take a family virtual tour of the National Marine Aquarium Each show lasts 20 minutes and they’re all followed by Mermaid Tales short stories written just for kids and read by the aquarium’s resident mermaid, Marina (a soothing quarter of an hour for kids and some well-deserved downtime for parent/teachers). ![]() Planned topics include: underwater volcanoes creature classification nautical navigation ocean mysteries MegaFauna life cycles, and looking after the ocean. Shows will air on Fridays at lunchtime for the next eight weeks on the National Marine Aquarium’s YouTube channel. ![]()
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