SHEDD AQUARIUM
Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is
an indoor public aquarium in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that opened on May 30, 1930. The
aquarium contains over 25,000 fish, and was for some time the largest indoor
aquarium in the world with 5,000,000 US gallons (19,000,000 l;
4,200,000 imp gal) of water. Shedd Aquarium was the first inland
aquarium with a permanent saltwater fish collection. It is surrounded by Museum Campus Chicago, which it shares with the
Adler Planetarium and the Field Museum of Natural History. The aquarium has
2 million annual visitors; it was the most visited aquarium in the U.S. in 2005,
and in 2007, it surpassed the Field Museum as the most popular cultural
.
an indoor public aquarium in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that opened on May 30, 1930. The
aquarium contains over 25,000 fish, and was for some time the largest indoor
aquarium in the world with 5,000,000 US gallons (19,000,000 l;
4,200,000 imp gal) of water. Shedd Aquarium was the first inland
aquarium with a permanent saltwater fish collection. It is surrounded by Museum Campus Chicago, which it shares with the
Adler Planetarium and the Field Museum of Natural History. The aquarium has
2 million annual visitors; it was the most visited aquarium in the U.S. in 2005,
and in 2007, it surpassed the Field Museum as the most popular cultural
.