Description: Situated in the Inner Harbor area of downtown Baltimore, the National Aquarium Baltimore is one of the city’s premiere tourist attractions - drawing over 1.5 million visitors each year. Built during Baltimore’s urban renewal period in 1981, the aquarium is home to a highly-regarded collection of 16,500 aquatic specimens, representing 660 species from around the world. Top attractions include the Dolphin Display, Rooftop Rainforest, Central Ray Pool and Multi-Story Shark Tank. Other exhibits include Maryland: Mountains to the sea, home to fish native to the state, Wings in the Water, housing stingrays, sharks and tarpon, Surviving Through Adaptation, which exhibits fish with strange adaptations, like electric eels, chambered nautilus and giant Pacific octopus, in addition to Sea Cliffs, Kelp Forest, Pacific, Coral Reef, Amazon River and more.
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