North Sea Oceanarium
The North Sea Oceanarium (Danish Nordsøen Oceanarium ) is a maritime museum in the Danish port city of Hirtshals in North Jutland with aquariums and oceanarium as well as exhibitions about the North Sea and its fauna.
location
The museum is located directly on the E 39 (Aalborgvej) in an industrial area in the east of Hirtshals. A regional train stop on the Hjørring – Hirtshals line is 300 meters from the museum.
Attractions
Oceanarium
With a volume of over 4.5 million liters of seawater and a height of over four floors, the size of the oceanarium gives a natural impression of the North Sea. Among other things, it shows the rare sunfish . After a devastating fire in 2003, the oceanarium was reopened in 2005.
Seal tank
The seal pool with 8 to 10 seals can be found in an outdoor area . These are not captured animals, but museum-born animals or howlers . The main basin holds almost 1 million liters of sea water. It was built in the 1990s after the seal pool built in 1984 proved too small. A glass tunnel gives the opportunity to see the seals underwater.
Aquariums
In the former main building, built in 1984, there is a large, 5 m high aquarium , in which cod , pollack , turbot and sea bass are exhibited. Twelve aquariums are arranged around this octagonal aquarium, each showing different habitats in the North Sea.
Numerous other themed pools, distributed over the entire building complex (especially in the new building) mostly show animals that are barely visible in the large aquariums.
North Sea Laboratory
The visitors can observe the creatures of the North Sea, invisible to the naked eye, through microscopes . The "petting zoo" can also be found in the North Sea laboratory, where numerous marine animals can also be touched.
playgrounds
There are playgrounds for different age groups on the museum premises, including a. a fishing cutter and a whale can be climbed.
Others
In 2019, employees and scientists publicly dissected a 7-meter-long humpback whale in the parking lot of the oceanarium , which had previously died in a fisherman's net.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Employees of the North Sea Oceanarium cut carcass of a humpback whale. October 9, 2019, accessed October 19, 2019 .
Coordinates: 57 ° 35 ′ 12.4 " N , 9 ° 58 ′ 49.1" E