Half Off Admission – Birch Aquarium 20th Anniversary Special
January 11th, 2012
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Birch Aquarium at Scripps With Half Off Admission
To mark 20 years at its current location along Expedition Way in La Jolla, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, is offering San Diego County residents half-off admission on the 20th of every month through the Aquarium’s anniversary month of September 2012.
“We are very grateful to the San Diego community for embracing the aquarium and its mission over the last two decades,” said Nigella Hillgarth, Aquarium Executive Director. “We’re offering half-off admission as a way to say thank you to residents and invite them to rediscover our fantastic facility.”
The 20th Anniversary special half off admission to Birch Aquarium Offer is valid on the 20th of each month through September 2012:
- Friday, January 20, 2012
- Monday, February 20, 2012
- Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- Friday, April 20, 2012
- Sunday, May 20, 2012
- Wednesday, June 20, 2012
- Friday, July 20, 2012
- Monday, August 20, 2012
- Thursday, September 20, 2012
Half off admission is extended to all San Diego County residents living in zip codes 91901-92199. Aquarium visitors must show a valid ID with the zip code to receive the offer (limit two children per paid adult; cannot be combined with other offers).
About the Birch Aquarium at Scripps:
Birch Aquarium at Scripps is the public exploration center for the world-renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Perched on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the aquarium features more than 60 habitats of fish and invertebrates from the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest to the tropical waters of Mexico and beyond. An interactive museum showcases research discoveries by Scripps scientists on climate, earth and ocean science and features five dozen interactive elements. Accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Birch Aquarium has an annual attendance of more than 405,000, including 45,000 school children.
Scripps Oceanography has dedicated itself to maintaining a public aquarium since its inception in 1903. Birch Aquarium at Scripps opened in September 1992 along Expedition Way, replacing the Scripps Aquarium-Museum, which operated for four decades near Scripps Pier. Native San Diegans often recall visiting the facility when they were school children.
The new $14 million facility, named in honor of the Delaware-based Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation, a nonprofit organization that granted $6 million for the Aquarium’s redesign, was three times larger than its predecessor and became a testament to the breadth of Scripps research explorations and the Institution’s commitment to sharing ocean and earth science discoveries with the public.
In the last 20 years, Birch Aquarium at Scripps has welcomed more than 6 million visitors from across the United States and around the world, including U.S. presidents and other high-ranking government officials, royalty and Hollywood superstars. The Aquarium remains one of San Diego’s top cultural destinations and was voted San Diego’s Best Museum in the 2011 A-List, coordinated by 10News.com. More than 40,000 school children take part in the Aquarium’s on- and off-site education programs each year.
Today, visitors can explore more than 60 marine tanks – up from 36 on opening day – teeming with fishes, corals and invertebrates from the chilly waters of the Pacific Northwest to the warm currents of the tropical seas. A showcase 70,000-gallon tank houses a forest of gently swaying kelp, treating visitors to a serene view of a complex marine community that flourishes off the San Diego coast.
In addition to marine-life exhibits, the aquarium showcases ocean and earth science in its interactive, award-winning museum. Boundless Energy, the Aquarium’s newest exhibit, opened last summer. This outdoor, interactive playground – celebrating ways we can harness clean energy from the planet – is a natural extension of Feeling the Heat: The Climate Challenge, an adjacent exhibit that presents the science of global climate change.
Birch Aquarium at Scripps is located at 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla, CA. Free parking (for up to three hours) is available to Aquarium visitors.
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