Tennessee Aquarium

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Tennessee Aquarium
Date opened

May 1, 1992 (River Journey Building)[1]

April 29, 2005 (Ocean Journey Building)[1][2]
Location Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Coordinates 35°03′21″N 85°18′39″W / 35.0557°N 85.3108°W / 35.0557; -85.3108Coordinates: 35°03′21″N 85°18′39″W / 35.0557°N 85.3108°W / 35.0557; -85.3108
Number of animals 12,000[3]
Total volume of tanks 1,100,000 US gal (4,200,000 l; 920,000 imp gal)[1]
Memberships AZA
Website www.tnaqua.org

The Tennessee Aquarium is a non-profit public aquarium located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The River Journey building is the largest freshwater aquarium in the world.[1][4]

The Tennessee Aquarium's River Journey and Ocean Journey buildings are home to more than 12,000 animals including fish, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, birds, penguins, butterflies and more.[3][5] The original River Journey facility is organized around the theme of the Story of the River, following the path of a raindrop from high in the Appalachian Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 2/3 of the facility's display follows this theme, with the rest devoted to smaller aquatic exhibits hosting organisms from around the world. The self-guided tour takes visitors through three living forest exhibits that teem with life above and below the water’s surface. Along the way, visitors see thousands of animals like free-flying song birds, snapping turtles, sandbar and sand tiger sharks, stingrays, river otters, moray eels and colorful reef fish.

A new addition to the facility, Ocean Journey, opened in April 2005, ostensibly follows the theme of an River Journey, though with much less consistency than the original. However this facility does include more hands on displays, such as a large shark tank and ray touch tank, large macaws, a butterfly garden with South American species on constant display, as well as the very large ocean tank itself. Other visitor favorites include the Boneless Beauties gallery, where guests enjoy invertebrates like jellyfish, cuttlefish, giant Pacific octopuses and Japanese spider crabs. An even newer 16,000 gallon penguin exhibit, with ten Macaroni penguins and ten Gentoo penguins, opened May 3, 2007. The Tennessee Aquarium was the first to breed sea dragons.

The Tennessee Aquarium’s initial conceptual design, architecture and exhibit design (opened in 1992) was led by Peter Chermayeff of Peter Chermayeff LLC while at Cambridge Seven Associates, and the expansion’s conceptual design, architecture and exhibit design (opened in 2005) was led by Peter Chermayeff and Peter Sollogub and Bobby C. Poole at Chermayeff, Sollogub & Poole.[6]

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References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Tennessee Aquarium Newsroom - News Release
  2. ^ "Tennessee Aquarium Ocean Journey Building". Tennessee Aquarium. Retrieved 3 July 2012. 
  3. ^ a b "Endangered Beluga Sturgeon will be Reunited with Brother: Delta Air Lines Transports 7-Foot Fish on 767 Passenger Plane". Tennessee Aquarium. May 25, 2006. Retrieved 3 July 2012. 
  4. ^ Flessner, Dave (April 29, 2012). "Tennessee Aquarium aims to raise attendance and donations". Chattanooga Times Free Press. Retrieved 3 July 2012. 
  5. ^ "Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga Houses a Variety of Animals". BusinessClimate.com. Retrieved 3 July 2012. 
  6. ^ "Peter Chermayeff LLC". peterchermayeff.com. Peter Chermayeff LLC. 

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