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LISBON OCEANARIUM




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Essentials about the Lisbon Oceanarium in brief

Attention fish fans! When it comes to the underwater world, Lisbon offers a true highlight: The Oceanário de Lisboa (Lisbon Oceanarium). The Oceanarium is home to over 12,000 marine creatures, making it the largest indoor aquarium in Europe. The Lisbon Oceanarium is located in the Parque das Nações (Park of Nations), the former site of the 1998 World Expo, when the Oceanarium was the main attraction of Expo 98, which was held under the motto “The Oceans: A Legacy for the Future”.

The building of the Lisbon Oceanarium

Already the building designed by architect Peter Chermayeff (a specialist in the construction of aquariums) is an architectural highlight and a real eye-catcher. The building stands in the middle of a water basin and extends over two floors around a gigantic main aquarium holding 5,000 cubic meters of salt water. In 2011, an additional building was added to the Oceanarium, which now houses the entrance as well as an auditorium and restaurant. It is connected to the main building by a connecting walkway. Exhibitions on changing themes are presented in the aquariums of the additional building.

The aquariums of the Lisbon Oceanarium

The main aquarium houses several species of sharks and rays as well as schools of tuna, sardines and the very difficult to keep moonfish. Due to the huge letters, visitors to the Oceanarium can get up close and personal with the sea creatures here. In addition to the main tank, marine life from all corners of the world’s oceans can be seen in many smaller aquariums. The four corners of the Oceanarium are each dedicated to specific regions. For example, there is an Antarctic corner with penguins and an artificial glacier, a mangrove forest corner, a North American rocky coast corner with a pair of sea otters, and a corner with a tropical coral reef where things are really colorful.




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Phone

+351 218 917 000

Opening hours

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
10 am – 8 pm 10 am – 8 pm 10 am – 8 pm 10 am – 8 pm 10 am – 8 pm 10 am – 8 pm 10 am – 8 pm

Admission fees

Adults (Ages 13 – 64): €25

Seniors (Ages 65+): €17

Children (Ages 3 – 12): €15

Small children (Ages 2 and under): free

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Getting there

By public transport:

Metro line Vm: Stop Oriente

Bus lines 26B, 400 and 728: Stop Oceanário de Lisboa

By car:

The nearest parking garages are Parque Oceanário and Parque de Estacionamento Doca – Parque de Nações.

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Photos: Kent Wang from London, United Kingdom, Lisbon Oceanarium (28103554157), CC BY-SA 2.0 / Rinaldo Wurglitsch, Tank in Oceanário de Lisboa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / Pasquale Paolo Cardo from Finale Ligure (Savona), Italy, Bad guys (32879639874), CC BY 2.0
Texts: Individual pieces of content and information from Wikipedia DE and Wikipedia EN under the Creative-Commons-Lizenz Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
English version: Machine translation by DeepL