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Wednesday 10am - 5pm Thursday 10am - 5pm Friday 10am - 5pm Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 10am - 6pm

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Explore Galway Atlantaquaria and discover the diversity of life in our ocean, rivers, and lakes. Travelers’ Choice winner, 2025 A BIAZA & EAZA Aquarium.

Atlantaquaria aims to educate, engage and inspire visitors about marine and freshwater life by sharing our passion and knowledge. Our comprehensive discovery and learning programmes offer formal and informal learning opportunities – both online and in-person – in a fun and engaging way.

10/11/2026

Happy Science Week, Webinar Special!

We had a fantastic response to our last webinar, featuring a very special Wetlands For Life presentation.

JOIN US FOR THE NEXT ONE!

Don't miss the next webinar in association with Calmast STEM Engagement Centre and Marine Institute Explorers Education who will be exploring Exploring Water, from Molecule to Ocean!

The webinar is free to join, see: https://www.calmast.ie/event/webinar-exploring-water-from-molecule-to-ocean-with-the-marine-institute-explorers-education-programme/

Thanks to EAZA Wetlands for Life campaign & Galway Science and Technology festival, and schools for your support to make this webinar a great success.

10/11/2026

Open & Closing Days at the Aquarium 🪧
Galway Atlantaquaria would like to inform you about our change in open and closed days.
Every year we close every Monday and Tuesday for annual maintenance and Exhibit Design/upgrade etc.
NEW OPEN DAYS 🩵
We are open be open* from Wednesday to Friday (10 am until 5 pm) and Saturday and Sunday (10 am until 6 pm)
*Last entry one hour before closing

Normal opening time on Wednesday, and we look forward to seeing you in the Aquarium.

08/11/2026

Galway Science & Technology Festival 2009, 2010
Blast from the past! As we look forward to another great science week, we found these in the Archives, can anyone id the last star!

Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, Kevin O Hara,

08/11/2026

HAPPY SCIENCE WEEK, 2026
We hope that everyone has a great Science Week.
Waterstriders, we discovered these whilst recording the biodiversity on the bog, as part of the EAZA Wetlands Fore Life Campaign. How are these liked to science week? Well they require the water to have surface tension, and if this bound is broken....they can drown. It is a great example of Water: From Molecule to Ocean! and why we need to use less detergents in our wash.

EAZA - the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria

07/11/2026

The Bearna Logboat
Join us for a visit and step back 5 thousand years to see the Bearna Logboat (former Dug out canoe).
This was the most common mode of transport for the local communities at the time, and they could be 'purposefully' sunk, so the vikings could not find them. This meant that in the case of a raid, the villagers could re float them to escape.

Galway Bay used to be a forest too, so that is a pretty cool bit of information.
About
Archives
https://www.rte.ie/archives/2026/0209/1557551-bearna-bog-boat/

Found on a beach at Turlin Bay near Bearna (Barna), County Galway, in December 2002 by Brian and Ronán Ó Carra following severe storms.

Credit for background music
“The Schools’ Collection, Volume, Leo Corduff” by Dúchas © National Folklore Collection, UCD is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

06/11/2026

Let's GO VISIT the........
If you said Aquarium, we would love to see you here!
Join us for guided or self guided experiences in the Aquarium. We offer a unique window into the mysterious world of water!
Thanks for planning a visit!

05/11/2026

Explorers Brave The Elements 🩵
There is no doubt the weather is cold on the shore! But our hardy Seashore Explorers are too excited to be cold with a host of biodiversity to learn about. Guided by our Explorers Officer, Sibéal Regan there is always something 'cool' to see on the shore!

05/11/2026

Wetlands for Life Colouring Competition 💙
The aquarium is delighted to sponsor a special Colouring & Art Competition for Science Week Ireland

Students can draw their own piece of original artwork or use one of the colouring sheets available to download.

Entries can be upload using the Photo Competition Form or posted or hand delivered to the aquarium. Full details and guidance on how to take part can be found on the news section of website.

Lots of great prizes to be won, enter today.
Artwork should be submitted before the 20th November.

Galway Science & Technology Festival

Address

The Promenade
Galway
H91T2FD

Opening Hours

Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 6pm
Sunday	10am - 6pm

Telephone

+35391585100

Website

http://www.nationalaquarium.ie/

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