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The National Aquarium is a nonprofit in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and one of Maryland’s top attractions, featuring thousands of animals, a tropical rainforest, and an open-ocean shark tank.
The National Aquarium’s Marine Animal Rescue Program has rescued and released a variety of marine animals—including seals, sea turtles, manatees, and more—since launching in 1991.
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Rescued Animals
Though a nonprofit, the Aquarium generates over $430 million a year and attracts more than a million visitors, most coming to Baltimore for it.
The aquarium is planning to relocate its colony of bottlenose dolphins to a protected, seaside sanctuary, the first of its kind in North America.
Enormous 5,000-pound finback whale skeleton
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The aquarium’s rarest species
Kemp’s ridley
Learn More About the National Aquarium
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Dolphin Show!
Watch the aquariums Dolphins perform! They are now relocated to a seaside sanctuary.
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Upland Tropical Rainforest
Tropical birds fly, poison dart frogs jump and sloths hang among rain forest plants!
