Isn’t it hard to believe that the Aquarium has been part of South Africans’ lives for 26 years already – time has flown? Some of you visited the Two Oceans Aquarium as children with your parents, or as part of a school group – and now you are bringing your children to experience and explore the magic of Southern Africa’s underwater world.
“When we first opened our doors 26 years ago, we could not have imagined the amazing passion, wonder, empathy, and excitement we’d get to share with you – our team, our fans, and the South African ocean-loving community.”
“Thank you to the over 10 million people who have joined our journey, and to the incredible partners that we’ve had along the way that now allow our education and conservation work to reach even more people and help even more wildlife, in the V&A Waterfront and beyond, through the Two Oceans Aquarium Education Foundation,” – Two Oceans Aquarium.
Two Oceans Aquarium vision of “abundant and healthy oceans”, and mission “to inspire action for the future well-being of our oceans” have always been at the heart of the organisation’s drive to be a force of positive conservation action and environmental education. In 2018, to further grow this vision, the Aquarium established the non-profit
Two Oceans Aquarium Education Foundation to grow education, conservation and research efforts. This work incorporates the already well-established and respected marine science education programmes, the turtle rehabilitation programme, and the Marine Wildlife Management Programme.
Two Oceans Aquarium has always chosen to primarily house animals and plants found in the waters off the southern African coast and to celebrate this rich diversity of life, some of which is found nowhere else in the world.
The Two Oceans Aquarium is a place where visitors can see the life that inhabits South Africa’s subtropical seas, but has become so much more – a temporary home to turtles, a safe space where many people have learned to scuba dive, a place where tens of thousands of school children have learned how their lives are connected to the ocean.
Watch live music, puppet show, or attend a corporate function.
Above all, the goal of the Two Oceans Aquarium is that every single person who visits the Aquarium, leaves with more love and respect for our life-giving ocean.
