Penghu Aquarium


The Penghu Aquarium is an oceanarium in Baisha Township, Penghu County, Taiwan.

History

The oceanarium was established in 1997 to enable the Fisheries Research Institute to study local marine ecology.

Architecture

The oceanarium covers 2 hectares of land. The main building is surrounded by gardens and sculptures of various types of marine creatures. The building is a two-story building with three main sections, consisting of a seashore exhibition area, a reef exhibition area and an ocean exhibition area. There is also an underwater tunnel with a walkway encased in glass. The main architect for this building, Barney Thorne, engineered the huge fish tank inside which houses a large variety of exotic fish.

Exhibition

The oceanarium is home to over two hundred species of fish from water within 800 km radius of Baisha covering Taiwan Strait and South China Sea.

Opening time

The oceanarium is open every day from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.